Title: Maritime Safety Projects from the DG TREN point of view
1Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
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- Maritime Safety Projects from the DG TREN point
of view -
- Interreg-MSUO Maritime
- Safety projects fair
- Antwerp 5 and 6 of June 2007
- Urban HallbergDG TREN-G1
2Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
3Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
Importance of maritime transport for Europe
- ?25 Member States
- ?25 world tonnage
- ?220.000 European seafarers
- ?90 of Europes external trade and 40 of its
internal trade are shipped through seaports - ?Sea ports handle a total of 3.5 billion tonnes
ofcargo a year and some 350 million passengers
4Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
Nature of the EU
- EU a regional integration organization
- Distinction between domains of
Community/national competence - EU legislation is binding for 27 States
- 3 institutions Council (EU Member States),
Parliament (EU citizens), Commission (executive
body, independent from Member States) -
5Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
Main activities of the European Commission
- Propose legislation and monitor its
implementation (with the assistance of EMSA) - Promote and finance maritime safety IT and
infrastructure projects (eg. VTS) and research - Role in EU international representation and
cooperation - ? IMO and ILO
- ? Bilateral cooperation e.g. Regular EU/Russian
Federation Maritime Dialogue on Maritime Policy
and Maritime Safety
6Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
EU maritime safety policy key dates
- ERIKA I (March 2000) Port State control,
Classification societies, Double Hull oil
tankers. - ERIKA - II (December 2000) Vessel Traffic
Monitoring, compensation regime, establishment of
the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). - Measures post PRESTIGE (December 2002)
Banning of Heavy Oils... - 3rd Maritime Safety Package (proposed
November 2005) 7 measures, including amendment
VTM Directive -
7Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
The VTM Directive
- Requirements for ships calling to EU ports
- Carriage requirements
- AIS and VDR (international and domestic)
- Third Maritime Safety Legislative Package
proposal to equip fishing vessels gt15 m with AIS
Class A - Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT)?
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- Notification requirements
- Pre-arrival (24h in advance)
- Coastal reporting (VTS, AIS)
- Hazmat
- Incidents at sea
8Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
The VTM Directive
- Requirements for Member States
- To set up appropriate shore-based infrastructure
and IT systems for receiving ships reports - To interconnect their national systems to
exchange maritime safety data - To take measures to improve prevention of
accidents and emergency response e.g. SAR
operations, plans for places of refuge
9Directorate General for Energy and
TransportMaritime Transport Policy and Maritime
Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
Monitoring and information system Other relevant
EU legislation
- Port Reception facilities requirement for Member
States and the Commission to develop a monitoring
and information system - Port State Control Directive pre-notification
requirement for ships subject to mandatory
expanded inspections Development of a New
Information System (NIS) - Security Regulation implementing new Chapter
XI-2 of Solas (including pre-arrival
notification) - EMSA operates information systems and databases
in the field of traffic safety
10Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
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12Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
What is SafeSeaNet (SSN)
- SSN aims at implementing the requirements of the
VTM Directive and other EC maritime safety
legislation - SSN is a shore-to-shore electronic network
between the maritime authorities of Member States
- The SSN project was launched by the Commission in
2002 and handed over to EMSA in October 2004
13Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
Main objectives of SSN
- SafeSeaNet aims at
- improving emergency response in case of incidents
or pollution at sea (eg transmission of DG/PG
information) - - early detection of ships posing a risk
- - increased efficiency of port logistics
(accurate ETAs, waste handling) - - produce statistics for EMSA, Member States and
the Commission
14Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
SSN basic system requirements
- System available 24h/day - 365 days/year
- Capable of providing a rapid reply to any request
- Based on Internet Standard Technology
- Support message implementation in XML
- Flexible be able to include new requirements
stemming from EC legislation, new messages, new
members in the network, etc.
15Directorate General for Energy and
TransportMaritime Safety Unit
SafeSeaNet General Concept
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- SafeSeaNet system composed of 3 actors
- The Data Providers
- The Data Requesters
- The European Index System (EIS)
- Data providers and requesters are maritime
authorities or bodies NCAs, VTS, ports, MRCC,
PSC, security authorities - The EIS is operated by EMSA
16Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
SSN basic concept
- 1. Local/national entity receiving a ship's
notification retains the detailed information and
sends a short message to the EIS - 2. The EIS keeps track of the data location
(index) - 3. On request, SSN locates the data, retrieves
it and forward it to the requester
Country B
Country A
European Index Server
17Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
Notification prior to entry into ports of the
Member States
What was last recorded position of a certain
vessel?
EIS
What vessels are approaching my ports?
Monitoring of ships entering the area of
mandatory ship reporting systems
What dangerous cargo is on board?
Notification of dangerous or polluting goods
carried on board
Any incidents on certain areas?
Casualty investigation
Reporting of incidents and accidents at sea
18Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
SSN Data handled by SSN
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- SSN uses existing reports, e.g. to coastal VTS
19Directorate General for Energy and
TransportMaritime Safety Unit
..Or to AIS shore-based stations
20Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
SSN types of requests
- 6 Generic messages
- Voyage
- Port Reporting
- Ship Reporting
- AIS
- Hazmat
- Security
- Alert messages
- SITREP
- POLREP
- WASTE
- CONTAINERS LOST/FOUND
- OTHERS ? DEFREP,
- INFRINGEMENT TRAFFIC RULES, etc.
1 - SHIP SEARCH
2 - PORT SEARCH
Provides the list of all ships bound to a given
port with their ETAs
3 - AREA SEARCH
21Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
SSN present functions
- Arrival/departure notifications to port/anchorage
- Hazmat notifications
- Ship notifications (VTS-AIS)
- Alert messages
22Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
SSN planned functions
- Waste notifications
- Port State Control (PSC) information
- ISPS notifications
23Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
SSN future priorities - 1
- Extension of the community of SSN users
- SSN to be developed as a core platform for
electronic data exchange related to maritime
safety, security and environment - Extension of SSN functionalities development of
real-time data exchange, integration of GIS and
new sensors (satellite, radar), possible use for
implementation of HNS convention - Extension of geographical coverage enlargement
EU, cooperation with non EU States for data
exchange
24Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
European Commission - Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport Maritime Safety Unit
SSN future priorities 2
- Fundamental evolutions
- LRIT entry into force in early 2008 EU regional
Data Centre based on SSN - Towards the Single Window Concept
25Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Maritime Transport Policy Maritime Safety Unit
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- Part 3
- Maritime safety projects
26MOS Centre
Ships in distress emergencies
Pollution
Enforcement
SAR
CVTS
ETV
Met info
QRA
E-navigation Centre
Traffic Image
Lifeboats
AIS networks
Helicopters
Pollution Response
Traffic image
LRIT/LRR
SRUs
EOS
Maritime Assistance Service
Chart Centre
AIS ships
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28Proposed amendment to 2002/59
- Article 20a, para 3a. When cooperating within
regional agreements or in the framework of
cross-border or transnational projects MS shall
ensure that information systems or networks
developed comply with requirements of this
Directive and are compatible with and connected
to the SafeSeaNet system
29Participants in the process to improve maritime
safety
Commission -TREN -REGIO
MSUO
EMSA
European Parliament
Council (Member States)
30The three basic principles of the Commissions
approach for the EU maritime safety policy
- Best use of internationally agreed or recommended
measures full respect of the United Nations
Law of the Seas (UNCLOS) and of the
International Maritime Organisation (IMO) - Effective implementation of the international
rules, not only to EU ships but also to all
foreign flagged ships (Panama, Liberia, etc) that
come to our ports. Specific geographical position
of Europe (peninsula, transit zone) - Take the lead in the promotion of enhanced
maritime safety rules at the international
instances (IMO, ILO, bilateral agreements, etc)
31What makes a project useful for DGTREN
- The outcome meets the objective of safety related
regulations - Do not propose implementation of policies
different from those agreed between the MS - If the project outcome is research invite COM
to consider the research result in the rule
and/or policy process
32How to achieve a good cooperation
- Identify and respect the different organizational
structures in the MS - In many MS local and regional authorities have
limited responsibility - Keep the MS representatives to council meetings
informed about projects - Keep DGTREN informed about projects
- Exchange information about projects with EMSA
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