Today, the European Commission adopted the fifteenth Update of the European List of Recycling Facilities of ships that now includes 41 facilities, 30 of them in Europe, including for the first time a German shipyard, that of Emden, ten in Turkey and one in the United States. Three construction sites have been removed from the list, including a Finnish shipyard that chose to not renewing your permit and one in Northern Ireland who did not provide the necessary information for the renewal. In addition, the Commission found that a shipyard in Turkey was not compliant with the EU regulation on the recycling of ships, in particular with regard to the protection of the coast.

From 31 December 2018, the EU regulation on the recycling of ships requires all large maritime ships flying the flag of an EU Member State to use approved facilities from the European List, which is regularly updated to include compliant systems or remove those that no longer satisfy standards.