the regulations on the biocidi can create remarkable problems to European shipowning the navalmeccanica industry and



The European associations that represent the naval constructors and repairers, the shipowners and the producers of varnishes have invited the representatives of the EU commission to examine the impact negative that regulations 528 on May 22, 2012 of the European Parliament and the Council on the put on one on the market and the use of the biocidi can determine on the European industry of the shipbuilding and the shipping.

In recent days the SEA SMRC, organism of which takes part enterprises and national associations of the field of the repair, maintenance and naval conversion, and the SEA Europe, association that the European navalmeccanica industry represents, have organized a seminary combined with the representatives of the EU commission, the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) and of the European varnish producers in order to estimate the impact of such regulations, that it has taken effect on September 1°, 2013 and whose objective is the harmonization of the relative norms to the availability and the use dip producing antifouling itture classified as biocidi.

In the course of the encounter it is evidenced that regulations 528/2012 can create not only great challenges in terms of conformity for shipowning the navalmeccanica industry and the varnish producers, but can also determine a distortion of the competition to the detriment of the European industry because to the ships repaired and/or painted to out of the EU with forbidden antifouling paints will be afforded to continue to navigate in waters of the European Union and that therefore to release these biocidi harmful.

According to the representatives of European shipowning the navalmeccanica industry and, moreover, the regulations are destined also to create additional burdens for the European industry because of the lack of harmonized procedures of appraisal let alone for the absence of mutual acknowledgment of biocidi between the Member States.

SEA SMRC, SEA Europe and the representatives of the ECSA and the varnish producers therefore have invited the EU commission and the Member States of the EU to carefully estimate the several issues raised from the field and to talk out in the next few months with the objective to remove the obstacles and to resolve the challenges with which the currently European industry it must be confronted.

According to the representatives of shipowning the navalmeccanica industry and it is however necessary that these matters are disciplined to international level through the International Maritime Organization (IMO) so that they can be created total conditions of parity from which they will draw benefit is the European atmosphere that the European enterprises.