The European Commission is introducing regulations to monitor, report, and verify CO2 emissions from ships visiting EU ports as part of the EU's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Starting in 2018, ship owners must monitor and annually report the CO2 emissions and efficiency of ships over 5000 GT that visit EU ports. This data will be verified by third parties and published by the European Commission to integrate maritime emissions into the EU's climate policies. Shipping companies must prepare monitoring plans for applicable ships by August 2017 and begin collecting voyage data from January 2018.

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for a safer world
MRV Regulation? A summary

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reducing risk
The regulation in a nutshell
The European Commission (EC) is bringing emissions from shipping into its 2009 climate and
energy package. MRV is designed to progressively integrate maritime emissions into the EU’s
policy for reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions (EU regulation 2015/757). MRV requires
ship owners and operators to annually monitor, report and verify CO2 emissions for vessels equal
to or larger than 5,000 GT and which call at any EU port. The results will be published on a regular
basis. Entered into force on 1 July 2015, the regulation will become fully effective on 1 January
2018.
Shipping companies will need to prepare a monitoring plan by 31 August 2017 at the latest for
each of their ships that falls under the jurisdiction of the regulation. They will have to monitor and
report the verified amount of CO2 emitted by their vessels on voyages to, from and between EU
ports and will also be required to provide information on energy efficiency parameters (see below).
Data collection will start on a per-voyage basis from 1 January 2018. Once the data is verified by a
third-party organization and sent to a central database, presumably managed by the European
Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), the aggregated ship emission and efficiency data will be
published by the European Commission by 30 June 2019 and then every consecutive year.

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What you should be aware of?

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Timelines

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reducing risk
The requirements

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for a safer world
MRV Regulation? A challenge !
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