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the Council of the EU has reached a political agreement on the relative regulations to the emissions of co2 of the ships
From on January 1°, 2018 the shipowners they will be obliged to monitor the emissions of their ships
December 17, 2014
Today the Council of the European Union has reached a political agreement on the regulations that establish new rules EU on the monitoring, the reporting and the verification (MRV) of the produced emissions of co2 from the ships. The political agreement 18th November follows the understanding reached with the European Parliament, the approval of the Committee of the permanent representatives (Coreper) on 26 November and the approval of the Ambient Commission of the European Parliament on 3 December.
The proposal to monitor the level of the carbon dioxide emissions of the ships is advanced to half 2013 from the Europe Commission which first step of a gradual approach to the reduction of the gas emissions to greenhouse effect in the field of the shipping, that it is the only modality of transport that not figure in the engagements of the EU for the reduction of the gas emissions to greenhouse effect.
The new norms, that they will regard the emissions of co2 of the ships of advanced tonnage to 5.000 tons with the exclusion of the military units, the ships from peach and other ship, preview that from on January 1°, 2018 the shipowners they will be obliged to monitor the emissions of each ship on the base of every travel and on a yearly basis and include among other things dispositions on as finding, verifying and to communicate the data. The regulations, once adopted formally, will take effect on July 1°, 2015. The EU commission will have to reexamine the regulations if an international agreement for the reduction of the produced gas emissions is reached greenhouse from the marine transports, so as to align it to the international agreement.
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Today the Council of the European Union has reached a political agreement on the regulations that establish new rules EU on the monitoring, the reporting and the verification (MRV) of the produced emissions of co2 from the ships. The political agreement 18th November follows the understanding reached with the European Parliament, the approval of the Committee of the permanent representatives (Coreper) on 26 November and the approval of the Ambient Commission of the European Parliament on 3 December.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
