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ECSA supports EU waste shipment shift for recycling of EU-flagged vessels in South Asia

by The Editorial Team
March 15, 2022
in Regulation, Ship Recycling
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Sea Sentinels claims that ECSA supports “a controversial proposed amendment to the EU’s Waste Shipment Regulation that would effectively make it possible to recycle EU-flagged ships at non-OECD shipbreaking facilities in South Asia.”

This is currently prohibited under the Basel Convention on transboundary shipments of hazardous waste, which has been transposed into European law as the EU Ship Recycling Regulation (EUSRR) that requires EU-flagged ships to be recycled at yards on an EU-approved list.

This has led to a situation where some shipowners have circumvented the so-called Basel Ban by switching to flags of convenience before selling ships for recycling to take advantage of higher steel prices at South Asia yards, despite a track record of environmental pollution and accidents caused by unsafe practices at some of these facilities

says Sea Sentinels.

On 2013, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the Ship Recycling Regulation (EU SRR). The aim of this regulation is to reduce the negative impacts linked to the recycling of ships flying the flag of Member States of the Union. The Regulation establishes requirements that ships and recycling facilities have to fulfil in order to ensure that ship recycling takes place in a sound environment and safe manner.

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According to ECSA, “the new proposal on shipments of waste clarifies the legal framework applicable to the recycling of EU-flagged ships when they become waste outside the EU,” adding that “they can be recycled in recycling facilities located outside the OECD if they meet the requirements of the EUSRR and are added to the EU list.”

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The ECSA says this legal anomaly has threatened to put the brakes on “substantial progress” in upgrading standards at some South Asian yards, such as those in Alang, India, that are “close to being accepted in the EU list”.

Commenting on the development, Singapore-based consultancy Sea Sentinels, believes the proposal marks a “significant shift” as it gives a clear incentive for these facilities to continue to upgrade to finally gain EU compliance.

In the absence of a globally enforced recycling regulation, this is an important step to incentivise continued improvements in health, safety and environmental standards at these yards

says Sea Sentinels chief executive Rakesh Bhargava, noting that it is vital that facilities seeking to achieve EUSRR compliance can be included in the EU list as these can provide the necessary capacity for sustainable recycling of larger EU-flagged ships for which there is little capacity available at existing yards on the list. “This would also enable South Asian yards to compete on a level playing field.”

Stricter rules

The European Union is seeking to crack down on this practice and clarify the legal framework for recycling of EU-flagged ships with the recently issued proposal to amend its Waste Shipment Regulation, which would also lead to changes to the EUSRR if approved.

This would impose stricter rules on exports of hazardous waste to non-OECD countries intended to ensure that facilities receiving this waste have been audited and can manage it sustainably.

This amendment distinguishes between EU-flagged ships on which the decision to recycle is taken inside or outside EU territory and “allows for those sold for scrap outside the bloc to be recycled at non-OECD facilities provided these are on the list of EU-compliant yards,” notes Sea Sentinels.

ECSA has now come out in support of the amendment as the stage is set for a lobbying battle ahead of talks by EU policymakers due to take place in May. The proposal addresses a “legal uncertainty” over whether non-OECD recycling facilities could ever gain inclusion on the EU list, even if they comply with the EUSRR, given the inclusion in the latter of the Basel Ban Amendment in 2019 that bars exports of hazardous waste to developing countries, the ECSA says.

Capacity need

This view is shared by Maria Skipper Schwenn, executive director for climate, environment and security at shipowner association Danish Shipping that is also lobbying strongly for the EU proposal to be adopted.

It is counterproductive to prevent facilities in non-OECD from ever being EU-approved taken into account the fact that more than 70% of all vessels are recycled in South Asia. It is imperative that these facilities are not prevented from applying for approval under the EUSRR

she says.

However, NGO Shipbreaking Platform claims that the recycling decision on EU-flagged vessels should instead be based on the location of the shipping company’s head office, which in many cases would continue to bar shipments of hazardous waste from the EU to non-OECD yards under the EUSRR.

Nonetheless, ECSA states that:

The EU should not embrace or cave into protectionist measures that will cut off facilities making substantial progress from the ship recycling market

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