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EMSA’s Role in the enforcement of EC rules

• n the performance of

Classification Societies

Third Maritime Talks Hamburg Jacob Terling Senior Project Officer, EMSA

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Presentation

• Short about EMSA
• Directive on classification societies 94/57/EC, as

amended – Key provisions – Technical Annex

• EMSA’s role in the enforcement of EC rules on the

performance of Classification Societies – Assessments – Visits to ships – Performance

• The Future

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The maritime sector and the EU

The Size and Weight of the European Union Maritime sector:

• 25 Member States, all with a maritime interest, all

members of IMO

• About one third of global shipping has an EU port as
• rigin or destination
• 23 % of the world tonnage is registered in and flying

the flag of an EU Member State

• 31 % of the world tonnage is controlled by EU interests

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EMSA’s Stakeholders and composition

• f the Administrative Board
• The European Commission, 4 members
• The 25 EU Member States, 25 members
• Norway and Iceland, 2 members without voting right
• Romania and Bulgaria, 2 members without voting right
• Maritime industries, 4 members without voting rights

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EMSA’s main tasks

Within the fields of maritime safety, pollution prevention from ships and ship security, EMSA has the following main tasks:

• To provide technical advice to the Commission and MS

with a view to ensuring the proper implementation of EU maritime legislation

• To foster technical cooperation between Member States

and disseminate best practice

• To provide operational capabilities, in particular to top

up Member State’s capabilities for oil pollution response

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EMSA organisation chart

Executive Director Willem de Ruiter Information and Communication Bureau of the Executive Director Unit C: Safety Assessments & Inspections Ib Matthiesen Unit D: Implementation EU Maritime Legislation Panagiotis Petropoulos Unit B: Operations Support Marc Jeuniaux Unit E: Technical Co-operation and Development Emilio Martin Bauza Unit A: Resources Tom Van Hees Unit F: Oil Pollution Response Leendert Bal f.f. A.1 Human Resources A.2 Budget and Financial Affairs B.1 Information & Communication Technologies B.2 Legal Affairs, Procurement and Facilities C.2 Training of Seafarers C.3 Maritime Security C.1 Assessments

• f Classification

Societies D.2 Port State Control D.3 Environment protection, port reception facilities D.1 Ship Safety Standards and Marine Equipment E.2 Accident Investigation E.3 Co-operation with Member States E.1 Ship Reporting E.4 Liability and Compensation F.2 Research, Evaluation and Innovation F.3 Operational Activities F.1 General Policy and external affairs F.4 Monitoring and Surveillance

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Growth of the Agency

Number of staff 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Mar- 03 Jun- 03 Sep- 03 Dec- 03 Mar- 04 Jun- 04 Sep- 04 Dec- 04 Mar- 05

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Safety Assessments, Inspections

EMSA Assessments are an important tool for ensuring proper implementation of EU maritime legislation and include:

• Assessments of EU recognised classification societies
• Visits to Member States administrations to verify

implementation of PSC

• Assessments of maritime education and training

systems in third countries

• Assistance to the Commission on security inspections

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Directive 94/57/EC, as amended

• Key provisions

– Article 4 – Recognition – Article 3 – Authorizations – Article 6 – Agreements – Article 11 - Assessment cycle – Article 15 + Technical Annex - part A and B

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Directive 94/57, as amended

Organisations recognised on the basis of Article 4(1) of Directive 94/57/EC: – American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) – Bureau Veritas (BV) – China Classification Society (CCS) – Det Norske Veritas (DNV) – Germanischer Lloyd (GL) – Korean Register of Shipping (KR) – Lloyd's Register of Shipping (LR) – Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NK) – Registro Italiano Navale (RINA) – Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS)

• 2. Organisations recognised on the basis of Article 4(3) of Directive 94/57/EC:

– Hellenic Register of Shipping (HRS) (The effects of this recognition are limited to Greece and Cyprus) – Registro Internacional Naval, SA (RINAVE)(The effects of this recognition are limited to Portugal)’.

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EMSA’s Role in the enforcement

• Assessments - cycle is that RO’s should be done once

every two years

• EMSA is not only assessing Head Office but include

– Regional offices, Plan approval and site offices all

• ver the world
• The assessments follow an established methodology in
• rder to maintain a uniform approach towards RO’s
• The approach is focusing on two aspects:

– Quality System – documentary assessment in relation to all the qualitative criteria in the technical Annex – Implementation of the Quality System – checking shipfiles (irrespective of flag)

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EMSA’s role in the enforcement

• Visits to ships

– Important tool, complement and validation activity for the performance of RO’s – Pilot project started 1 March 2005 – Evaluation meeting held 1 March 2006

• Visit to yards and site offices

– Where possible assessments also include a visit to new building projects

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EMSA’s role in the enforcement

• Performance

– Analysis and Trends of class related detentions

• Paris MoU
• USCG
• Tokyo MoU
• Article 9 - Development of criteria/scheme for

measuring the performance of RO’s

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PARIS MOU PSC AREA

detentions as a % of inspections 0.00% 1.00% 2.00% 3.00% 4.00% 5.00% 6.00% 7.00% 8.00% 9.00% 10.00% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 All detentions Class related detentions (CRD) (all CS) Class related detentions(CRD) (12 EU RO) Source: PMOU annual reports. Elaboration: EMSA

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USCG PSC AREA

Class related detentions (CRD) as a % of distinct vessel arrivals 0.00% 0.10% 0.20% 0.30% 0.40% 0.50% 0.60% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 12 EU RO average All CS average

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TOKYO MOU PSC AREA

Class related detentions(CRD) as % of inspections 0.00% 0.50% 1.00% 1.50% 2.00% 2.50% 3.00% 2003 2004 All CS 12 EU RO Average Source: TMOU annual reports. Elaboration: EMSA

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THE FUTURE

• Proposal for a revised Directive (COM (2005)587 Final
• f 23-11-2005)
• Enlargement of the European Union
• Lisbon

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

• Any Questions?
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