Today, the European Commission adopted a delegated act to clarify how to include ships serving the offshore industry in the MRV Regulation for the monitoring, reporting and verification of transport emissions of 29 April 2015. The regulation has been amended in 2023 to include these naval units and, Based on a public consultation carried out between 31 July and 28 August last, the draft delegated act was updated to include ships of different types, including ships of support, pipelayers, cable layers, drilling vessels, the installation of wind turbines and dredges.

In addition, the delegated act updates the MRV Regulation in order to ensure that companies do not have to divest shares under the EU Emissions Trading ETS for emissions from the combustion of low-cost synthetic fuels carbon emissions, in line with recent changes to the rules monitoring and reporting of the ETS.

The delegated act will now be submitted to Parliament and the Council of the EU to be examined and, if no objections, will be published in the "Official Gazette" and will enter into force by the end of this year.