BIMCO has repeatedly voiced concerns over the European Commission’s proposal for regulating CO2 emissions from ships, which requires reporting of information about cargo that is commercially sensitive.
Informally agreed last week, the EC Regulation on monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) creates a unilateral European MRV system that will become operational as of 2018, applying to ships above 5,000 GT arriving and/or departing from EU ports. The system is claimed to be neutral regarding flag and ownership
BIMCO believes that the EU MRV system will create additional red tape for shipping without any positive impact on the environment and may well negatively affect the prospect of an international agreement on the issue in IMO.
Apart from reporting data on CO2 emissions and distance sailed, the Regulation will require ships to report cargo-related information, which BIMCO believes will create problems related to data reliability, confidentiality, reporting responsibilities and obligations.
Lars Robert Pedersen, Deputy Secretary General at BIMCO, said:
“We view the EU MRV Regulation as unhelpful in terms of reaching an international agreement on the crucial issue of CO2 monitoring.
“We also find it hard to see how the cargo data required from ships will be of value as it relates to past commercial utilisation of ships and serves no purpose for limiting future CO2 emissions or assessing ships’ future performance capabilities.”
The agreement on the EU MRV Regulation still needs formal endorsement from the European Parliament and Council of Ministers. This process will not entail further changes to the specifics of the agreement, which is expected to be finalised by January 2015.
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BIMCO believes that before realistic targets can be established for the reduction of CO2 for the shipping industry, governments collectively must, through the International Maritime Organization (IMO), compile reliable data that establishes a baseline and supports such targets. BIMCO will, in principle, support a scheme that strives to collect reliable CO2 emissions data from ships engaged in international trade, provided that such a scheme does not place an unnecessary and additional administrative or operational burden on the ships. In line with BIMCO’s objective to facilitate international trade in a fair and non-discriminatory manner, a monitoring and reporting process should be as simple as possible to ease international implementation and preferably use data monitored and recorded according to existing procedures on board ships. Collecting activity data from ships, whether on an individual voyage basis or aggregated, should be avoided. Such data is only related to past commercial utilisation of ships and thus serves no value for assessing ship’s future performance capability and may in addition be commercially sensitive. Similarly, requiring submittal of an average efficiency index for a ship is rejected on the ground that such value is also not applicable to a ship’s future capability and may erroneously be perceived valid as a selection criteria for chartering efficient ships. BIMCO thus sees any possible monitoring and reporting scheme as a vehicle by which the industry may contribute to deliver data for governments collectively to facilitate their setting of realistic global targets for the reduction of CO2 emissions from ships. |
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