the European Parliament has adopted the proposal of new regulations on the demolition and recycling of the ships



Today the European Parliament, with 591 ballots to favor, 47 contrarys and 32 abstentions, has adopted in plenary session to Strasbourg the proposal of new regulations on the demolition and recycling of the ships that are introduced last year by the EU commission in order to avoid that the boats are dismantled on the spiagge of nations developing in conditions of deficiency of safety and safeguard of the human health and the atmosphere ( on 23 March 2012). "I would want to emphasize - the reporter Carl Schlyter has declared (Greens) - than this is not I attack against India, Bangladesh or Pakistan, nations that currently practice the silting up of the ships, but against the same practice of dangerous and highly polluting silting up". This regulations - it has added - "encourage these Countries to complete the necessary investments for adapted systems of recycling, above all to advantage of sure and ecocompatibili places of work in their nations".

The regulations preview that the ships recorded in the EU must be dismantled in systems of recycling approved of from the EU, that they will have to satisfy requisitioned specific, to be certifyd and subordinates to regular inspections. In the passage of the proposal of regulations in Parliament requirement for the societies are strengthened that among other things take care of the dismantling of the ships, obligating them to operate with permanent structures (dock, dry docks or slipway in concrete), that they must be planned, constructed and managed in safety and respecting the atmosphere. Moreover such companies must assure the control of all the materials dangerous presents on board of the ships during all the process of dismantling and to manipulate the materials and hazardous waste only on waterproof grounds with an effective system of water-drainage. The companies will have also to have of a system that documents the quantitative effectives of dangerous materials removed by every ship and their authorized treatment only near systems of treatment of the refusals or recycling.

The regulations preview that the normative new you regard is the communitarian ships that those not communitarian, as they will have to produce an inventory of the dangerous materials at the moment of their income in the ports of the EU. They will be the Member States to establish the measures of execution of the dispositions, comprised the endorsements in case of violation of the norms.

The EU commission will have moreover to introduce a study on the financial feasibility of an instrument that easy a corrected recycling of the ships to the standard of safety and, if, to introduce a legislative proposal within three years from the effectiveness of the new regulations.

The regulations, than soon formally will be adopted by the Council of the EU, it will be applied to the ships not before two years, and to more late, five-year-old after its effectiveness. The eventual one given will depend on when the ability to recycling of the systems included in the directory EU exceeds the threshold of 2,5 million tons. The dispositions in matter of systems of recycling of the ships will be applied to a year after the effectiveness of the regulations (20 days after its publication on the Gazette EU).

The association of the European shipowners has received with favor the outcome of the ballot of the Parliament EU: "the ECSA - the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA has declared), Patrick Verhoeven - confides that this agreement between the institutions of the European Union is not undermining Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships of 2009, more better known as Hong Kong Convention or HKC, and speeds up the Member States to ratify the HKC more soon allowing of a fast application with total level".