(AGENPARL) – BRUXELLES gio 04 maggio 2023 Since 2021, the European Commission has been planning to make proposals to revise the core building blocks of the EU maritime safety legislation, such as the Directives on Port State Control and Flag State Control, the Directive on Accident Investigations and the Regulation Founding the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). This implementation appraisal starts with a recap on the existing EU port state control policy and legislation and then reviews and summarises existing evaluations and discussions on their implementation, produced by EU institutions and their advisory bodies. The findings of the ex-post evaluations of the directive and statements by relevant stakeholders all indicate that the Port State Control Directive has been well transposed and implemented by the Member States, and that overall the system performs well, thus contributing to the increased level of safety of ships calling at EU ports. The directive, adopted in 2009 and in force since 2011, introduced drastic changes to the pre-existing system, notably in the way ships are selected for inspection. Today, based on the experience gained over more than a decade of relatively unproblematic implementation, the co-legislators should be able to review the port state control regime, making some generally anticipated technical updates to it in order to take into account the overall digitalisation of the shipping industry, among other things. The co-legislators should also consider more fundamental issues, such as the possible introduction of fishing vessels within the scope of the regime.

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Fonte/Source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/it/document/EPRS_BRI(2023)740211