EUROPEAN MARİTİME SAFETY AGENCY

AİM OF EMSA The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) is a European Union agency charged with reducing the risk of maritime accident, marine pollution from ships and the loss of human lives at sea by helping to enforce the pertinent EU legislation. İt is headquarted in Lisbon

AİM OF EMSA EMSA has the following mission: assist the commission in preparing EU legislation in the field of marine safety and prevention of pollution by ships. assist the Commission in the effective implementation of EU legislation on maritime safety and maritime security, in particular by monitoring the overall functioning of the EU port State control regime, organise training activities, develop technical solutions and provide technical assistance related to the implementation of EU legislation help develop a common methodology for investigating maritime accidents provide data on maritime safety and on pollution by ships and help improve the identification and pursuit of ships making unlawful discharges

HİSTORY EMSA was founded in 2002, after the EU adopted substantial packages of legislation relating to maritime security in the wake of major shipping disasters in European waters, such as those involving the ferry Estonia and the oil tankers Erika and Prestige. İt was felt that a specialised technical agency was necessary to overview the enforcement of this legislation and help in its implementetion.

HİSTORY EMSA has its roots in memorandum of understanding of port state controls (PARİS MOU) which was adopted in January PARİS MOU was itself created after AMOCO CADİZ accident which had taken place just as the Hague memorandum was about to come into effect in 1978

Signatories to the Paris MOU (blue), Tokyo MOU (red), Indian Ocean MOU (green), Mediterranean MOU (dark green), Acuerdo Latino (yellow), Caribbean MOU (olive), Abuja MOU (dark red), Black Sea MOU (cyan) and Riyadh MOU (navy).

ORGANİZATİON EMSA Executive Director is Willem de Ruiter, his successor will be Markku Mylly from Finland Willem de Ruiter.

ORGANİZATİON

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 1.Marine Casualties and İncidents This section includes summaries and safety recommendations from marine investigation reports on casualties involving ships and occupational accidents as produced by the EU Member States' competent authorities. Capsizing and Listing Collision Contact Damage to Ship Fire or explosion, Loss of Control,Loss of Control Missing, etc.(Annual Report)Annual Report

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 2.Environment Air pollution SOx and NOx Anti-Fouling System Ballast Water Green House Gases Liability & Compensation Port Reception Facilities Ship Recycling Sustainable Toolbox & LNG

AİR POLLUTİON Sox AND NOx Directive 2005/33/EC, being the amendment of the Directive 1999/32/EC, introduced in the EU requirements parallel to those of MARPOL Annex VI in respect of the sulphur content of marine fuels. In addition, it also introduced a 0.1% maximum sulphur requirement for fuels used by ships at berth in EU ports from 1 January This Directive has recently been amended by Directive 2012/33/EU in order to further adapt the European Union's legislation to the recent developments in the field at international level under MARPOL VI. This implies especially the introduction of, inter alia, stricter sulphur limits for marine fuel in SECAs (1,00 % until 31 December 2014 and 0,10 % as of 1 January 2015) as well as in sea areas outside SECAs (3,50 % as of 18 June 2014 and, in principle, 0,50 % as of 1 January 2020). Because the only existing SECAs are located within the EU, EMSA is sensitive in this subject.

AİR POLLUTİON Sox AND NOx Sulphur Limits For Fuel İn SECA Before 1 July % m/m Between 1 July 2010 and 1 January % m/m After 1 January % m/m General Sulphur Limits İn Other Sea Areas Before 1 July % m/m Between 1 July 2012 and 1 January % m/m After 1 January % m/m

ANTİ-FOULİNG SYSTEM The AFS Convention has been transposed into EU legislation through Regulation (EC) No 782/2003 on the prohibition of organotin compounds on ships. According to the Regulation, organotin compounds which act as biocides in anti-fouling systems are no longer allowed to be applied on ships flying the flag of a Member State as from 1 July As from 1 January 2008, EU ships and other ships visiting EU ports were obliged either not to bear anti-fouling systems containing such compounds, or to bear a coating that forms a barrier to such compounds leaching from underlying non-compliant antifouling system.

BALLAST WATER EMSA monitors and examines international, regional and sub-regional developments in this field in order to enable the Member States and the Commission to identify any need for further action at EU-level

GREEN HOUSES GASES The European Commission has stressed in various fora that shipping as a global business should, if possible, be regulated on a global basis, but it has also noted that the progress in IMO has been slow. The Commission has therefore supported the proposal from the IMO Secretary- General to expedite the organisation's work on GHG emissions as much as possible.

PORT RECEPTİON FACİLİTİES With well over seaports, with an estimated total of calls per year made by merchant ships and handling more than 3.5 billion tonnes of cargo every year, ship waste management in ports is a serious business in the European Union. In 2000 the European Community adopted Directive 2000/59/EC on port reception facilities, with the aim of substantially reducing discharges of ship-generated waste and cargo residues into the sea. In order to exchange views with Member States and industry stakeholders EMSA regularly organises workshops with Member States (e.g. workshop on PRF, Lisbon 13-14/04/2011) and meetings on specific technical issues (e.g. on cargo residues, Lisbon 02/03/2011).

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 3. Marine Equipment The main aim of the Directive is to ensure, as far as possible, that marine equipment on EU flagged ships is designed and constructed to appropriate standards. In addition to improving safety, it is also expected that constructing equipment to higher standards will improve the competitiveness of the EU ship building industry.

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 4.Port State Control The coastline of the European Union is many thousands of kilometers in length and contains well over individual ports. These handle around 90% of EU external trade and around 40% of trade between EU countries. This involves handling 3.5 billion tonnes of goods and 350 million passengers being transported on millions of ship journeys each year. Against this background, EMSA has been given the technical responsibility for monitoring of port State control at EU level.

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 5.Ship Safety Standards The monitoring of the work of IMO in the field of ship safety standards, including the reporting on developments in the relevant international legislation is part of the agency tasks. This task will entail technical evaluation of IMO submissions and technical assistance in the preparation of submissions to IMO as appropriate. Currently the agency focuses on damage stability of ro-ro passenger vessels, for which the majority of the world fleet flies EU Member State flags and sails in EU waters.

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 6.Training and Cooperation Training and Cooperation has been one of the main activities of the European Maritime Safety Agency since Through its training programme the Agency assists Member States and other beneficiary countries in areas where they need support and fosters co-operation and disseminates best practices in fields related to the interpretation and implementation of EU maritime safety legislation.

İMPLEMENTATİON TASK 7.Visits and İnspections Classification Societies Maritime Security MSRO İnspection Port Reception Facilities Port State Control İnspections Training of Seafarers Vessel Traffic Monitoring & İnformation System

OPERATİONAL TASK 1.Satellite Oil Spill Monitoring CleanSeaNet is a European satellite-based oil spill and vessel detection service. It offers assistance to participating States for the following activities: identifying and tracing oil pollution on the sea surface monitoring accidental pollution during emergencies contributing to the identification of polluters

OPERATİONAL TASK 2.Technical Cooperation İn Pollution Preparedness And Response European citizens have been affected by major oil spills on a regular basis. Tankers such as the Torrey Canyon, Amoco Cadiz, Haven, Sea Empress, Erika and Prestige, to name just a few, have marked the public conscious. The raised awareness of the socio-economic and environmental impacts of oil spills has been one of the driving forces in the evolution of preparedness and response structures in Member States and industry. Contingencies for ship-sourced pollution should be ready and able to mitigate the potential damage. Regulation 724/2004 amended the legal basis of the Agency, tasking EMSA to: Provide Member States and the Commission with technical and scientific assistance in the field of ship-sourced pollution Support on request with additional means in a cost efficient way the pollution response mechanisms of Member States

OPERATİONAL TASK 3.Vessel Tracking Globally (LRIT) On 19 May 2006, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) adopted Resolutions of the 81st Maritime Safety Committee - MSC 202(81) and MSC 211(81) - which made amendments to the International Convention of Safety of Life At Sea, 1974 (SOLAS) and introduced the establishment of the Long Range Identification and Tracking system (LRIT) for reasons related to national security.

OPERATİONAL TASK 4.Vessel Traffic Monitoring İn EU Waters (SafeSeaNet) SafeSeaNet was established as a centralised European platform for maritime data exchange, linking together maritime authorities from across Europe. It enables European Union Member States, Norway, and Iceland, to provide and receive information on ships, ship movements, and hazardous cargoes. Main sources of information include Automatic Identification System (AIS) based position reports, and notification messages sent by designated authorities in participating countries.

OPERATİONAL TASK 5.Anti-Piracy Monitoring Service (MARSURV-1) Based on successful pilot projects, in 2011 EUNAVFOR requested EMSA’s cooperation to develop a permanent integrated maritime monitoring service to track vessels in the high risk area off the coast of Somalia. The resulting service, MARSURV, integrates and fuses multiple sources of data in a real time environment. Data includes ship-specific risk information and vessel position data supplied by EUNAVFOR, as well as relevant EMSA managed vessel position data.

OPERATİONAL TASK 6.Hazardous and Noxious Substances The EMSA HNS Action Plan provides: A concise overview of existing available information in the field of preparedness and response to HNS marine pollution, including information on: seaborne transportation of HNS, past HNS incidents, challenges and impacts of HNS marine pollution, existing HNS pollution preparedness and response mechanisms, and options and limitations of response methods to such incidents; A framework document defining the Agency's role and activities in this field, in order to make an added value contribution at European level and strengthen existing preparedness and response capabilities.

OPERATİONAL TASK 7.Stand-by Oil Spill Response Vessels A key task for the Agency is to make available additional at-sea oil recovery resources to assist Member States respond­ing to large scale incidents such as the Erika (1999, France) and Prestige (2002, Spain). Therefore, a Network of Stand-by Oil Spill Response Vessels has been built up in order to 'top-up' pollution response capacities of the EU Member States.

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