SHIPPING SAFETY

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SHIPPING SAFETY

• Sectoral Workshop
• 12th EEAC-Annual Conference Towards a European
  Policy on the Marine Environment
• chaired and reported by Paul Scholte, Wadden Sea
  Council
• 14-16 October, Berlin

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EEAC Marine WGs letter to the Greek presidency
of EU, June 2003

• We note and welcome the attention and urgency
  given to Maritime Safety issues at the recent
  Brussels European Council, in the aftermath of
  the Prestige accident . However we are
  concerned that the spirit and sense of urgency
  that informed the heads of state discussion are
  not reflected in the present proposals of the EU
  Marine Policy, etc.

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Amongst the objectives of the marine strategy
relative to shipping safety (European Marine
Strategy-annotated outline of a policy document,
17-2-2004)

• Objective no12
• To reduce the environmental impact of
  shipping by developing the concept of the Clean
  Ship and promote safe shipping

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Thematic Strategy for the Protection and
Conservation of the marine environment(EC-October
2004 document)

• By 2010 at the latest to improve compliance
  with all existing discharge regulations for ships
  and with existing regulations on the protection
  of marine environment from pollution derived from
  shipping and maritime transport and to further
  reduce the environmental impact of shipping,
  inter alia, by developing and applying the
  concept of the Clean Ship and further promote
  safe shipping

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DISCUSSION Text in EEAC Statement on the
desired state

• Although shipping accidents do occasionally
  happen, their impact is minimised because ships
  are routed to avoid the most sensitive habits and
  all tankers are double-hulled

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DO WE HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD / MODIFY SOMETHING ?

• I am an ecologist and not a shipping safety
  specialist, but ..

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AMONGST THE ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED

• HOW TO KEEP SHIPPING SAFETY ON THE AGENDA
  (prevention and not responding to disasters only)
• HOW TO PREPARE UPCOMING RISKS (OFFSHORE WIND
  PARKS, etc.)
• STREAMLINING REGULATIONS AND ASSURING THEIR
  IMPLEMENTATION (Wadden Sea Councils advice on
  PSSA)

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SPEAKERS

• 1. Capt. te Ferreira da Silva, Lisbon Agrem /
  CILPAN (Centre of Coordination on Ocean Pollution
  NE Atlantic)
• 2. Arnaud LEROY, European Maritime Safety Agency
  (Belgium)
• 3.Monika Breuch-Moritz, Head of Unit Marine
  Environment Protection (Fed. Min. Transport,
  Germany)

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ORIENTATIONS for the Marine Strategy

• We welcome the new text (prepared for the
  Rdam conference)
• Wider concept of improvement of shipping safety
  and protection of the marine environment against
  pollution from ships should be taken into
  account. E.g. the compliance of regulations
  should be assured by the systematic control of
  ships, crews and shipping (compare aviation
  sector)