1. Maritime Safety – Unit D2
Safe Seas: Can an Integrated Maritime Surveillance be achieved by the EU?
European Economic and Social Committee
24 March 2015
DG MOVE
Maritime Safety – Unit D2
Jacob Terling

2. Can an Integrated Maritime Surveillance be achieved by the EU?
Yes it can!
In fact it is already operating on the civilian side! As we will soon get a demonstration of.
It has been operational since 2009 and is continuously developed.

3. Based in EU Law, existing systems as developed by Member States and hosted by EMSA, are today able to provide a tailor-made maritime surveillance picture, supporting all activities at sea, cross border and cross-sector. It is used both at EU level and at national level (so centralised and de-centralised), enhancing information exchange between authorities involved in maritime surveillance.

4. What the Union has already!
The Union Maritime Information and Exchange System (SSN), providing integrated maritime services
Continuously developed, enhanced and enriched
User-driven, bottom up approach, dealing with real operational needs
Main principles:
- use investments already made as efficiently as possible;
- build on the enhanced technical solutions available through existing systems;
- avoid duplication.
Directive 2002/59/EC . Latest amendment Commission Directive 2014/100/EU.

5. Integration = user driven approach
Perhaps the most important aspect! It is for operators in their daily work, supporting them and making cooperation and coordination possible.

6. What can it do?
Not a system for the sake of having a system, but a system providing real operational support!
Demonstration

7. EU Interagency cooperation
EMSA provides tailor-made integrated formation services to EU NAVFOR (anti piracy), EFCA (fishery control) and Frontex (border control) as well as to EU Member States
Multiple data sources (ship positions from different sensors: VMS, T-AIS, SAT-AIS, LRIT), data correlation and satellite Earth Observation.
EU Interagency cooperation
As well as MAOC-N I relation to drug smuggling!

8. Further User Functions and Beneficiaries
- supporting Coast Guard functions and needs, including Places of Refuge for ships in need of assistance
- providing the maritime picture to FRONTEX (Sea Border Control)
- Ship emissions pilot project (the use of AIS data in the assessment of ship air emissions).
- Exchange of radar data through SSN (about defining the operational concept for exchanging radar images through the system)
- Ship Reference Database (developing a service that will support Member States for their operational purposes).
- Blue Belt pilot project (exploring ship notification reports to national single windows and thereby to customs authorities of all EU Member States, and to demonstrate that this information can be used to simplify customs formalities for goods carried aboard ships engaged in intra-EU trade).
- Pilot projects with third countries
There is an untapped potential – tapped into as users gain experience with the system and from there more clearly define their user needs.

9. What is it for?
- Already all functions or user communities are benefitting from the integrated maritime system and services
- EMSA is tasked to make the necessary technical solutions
- Based on legislative requirements and requests for information needed
- cooperation with other EU agencies involved
- cost efficient way of using and building on the existing systems and platforms

10. Integrated Maritime Surveillance!
With on-going technological developments and the implementation of the Single Windows, the role of the system has been brought to a completely different level. While maritime vessel monitoring for safety purposes was the starting point, the future rests with an interconnected system that will work in a harmonized manner to facilitate not only safety but also maritime transport and traffic; the system is enabling enhanced operational situational awareness, providing information sharing, cross-border and cross-sector.
Integrated Maritime Surveillance!

11. EMSA Maritime Support Services
IT & operational Helpdesk for EU maritime applications
Application monitoring & incident management
Data quality checks
SPOC for requesting EMSA pollution response services
24/7 services
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