The European Union Ship Recycling Regulation
has been effective since 2013 and applies to all ships entering ports and
terminals of EU Member States.
While it is consistent with the broad
objectives established in the International Maritime Organisation’s Hong Kong
Convention (the Hong Kong Convention) on the safe and environmentally sound
recycling of ships, the Hong Kong Convention is not yet in force.
The Regulation makes provision for the EU to
introduce a financial mechanism, which is intended to encourage the use of ship
recycling facilities in the EU, or facilities outside the EU providing they
have been EU approved.
The process for approving facilities outside
the EU is currently ongoing. In late 2015, consultants appointed by the
European Commission proposed several options including an insurance-based
solution that could be used to finance a fund which would be established to
supportEU recycling.
The proposals were complex and proved to be
flawed. The Group engaged in correspondence and discussions with the appointed
consultants, explaining that insurance-related options are unworkable and
inappropriate in the context of end-of-life ship recycling.
Subsequent to this engagement, the
insurance-based proposals have been shelved. Instead, however, it appears that
the EU may seek to apply a levy or fund at some later stage.
Discussions are ongoing and the Group will
continue to monitor and engage in the European process in the future. (Source:
IGP&I)
Source: marine
link. 15 July 2016
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