The European Maritime Safety Agency Markku Mylly Executive

The European Maritime Safety Agency Markku Mylly / Executive Director TRAN committee Brussels / 7 September 2017

Priorities and challenges for 2017 Priorities - 1 Continue delivering core tasks with available resources Phase in new mandate (on going) 2

European Coast Guard cooperation Priorities - 1 3

EP- Pilot Project Creation of a EU Coast Guard Function 4

A common effort – An European solution 5

RPAS demonstration and way ahead Video from demo 6

Thetis – Supporting Ship inspections Inspection DB for Member States Enforcement, Targeting, Priority, Alerts IMO Instruments CO 2 Reporting DB for Shipping Companies THETIS MRV EU Regulation THETIS EU EU Directives Sulphur and PRF Monitoring Reporting & Verification 7

Thetis-MRV operational from 1 August 17 Legal Regulation 2015/757 on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of CO 2 from marine transport Users Shipping Companies, Verifiers and Flag states Worldwide Features Generations of Monitoring Plans (Voluntary) an Emission Reports (Mandatory) along with management of the workflow between Companies and Verifiers, leading to the issuance of Documents of Compliance. THETIS MRV Publication Emission Reports ship specific from April 2019 onwards. Figures N/A (Launch in August 2017) EU Regulation Monitoring Reporting & Verification 8

Places of Refuge – European Cooperation 9

European Maritime Single Window 10

Copernicus – growing interest 11

Pollution response “insurance” Homebase Response vessel As of September 2017 Response vessel with dispersants Dispersant stockpile EAS stockpile Aberdeen Sunderland EU member countries EU candidate countries Gothenburg Gdansk EEA/EFTA coastal countries Cobh Ostend Trieste Constanta Genoa Varna Vigo Ravenna Sines Piraeus Limassol Algeciras Valletta Las Palmas Marsaxlokk

Exporting European solutions Priorities - 1 13

Administrative Board Evaluation of EMSA Priorities - 1 • Evaluation conducted over 2016/2017 • Final report adopted by EMSA Administrative Board in June 2017 • Concluded that: The overall assessment is that EMSA contributes to a safer and more secure maritime environment as well as to the increased ability of Member States to prevent and to respond to marine pollution by pursuing activities and objectives which correspond to the needs of the EU in the area. • Administrative Board recommendation (November 2017) 14

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