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Written by Mathias Gullentops (3rd edition, updated on 04.04.2024).
On 1 June 2023, the European Commission presented the maritime safety package, focused on introducing modernised maritime safety and security rules on port state and flag state control, maritime accident investigation and ship source pollution. The package also includes a proposal to revise the Regulation on the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).
The revised regulation would give EMSA new and more numerous tasks since the last major revision of its mandate in 2013 and aim to make it ‘future proof’. It seeks to take better account of EMSA’s current tasks and objectives, which means that the agency would be legally mandated to fulfil these and provide EU Member States and the Commission with technical, operational and scientific assistance, to ensure maritime safety, security and the maritime sector’s green and digital transition. The agency would also be provided with adequate human and financial resources to fulfil its role.
The European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN), responsible for the file, adopted its on 7 December 2023, along with a mandate to open interinstitutional negotiations. During the March 2024 plenary session, Parliament adopted its first-reading position. The file will now be left to be followed up by the new Parliament after the European elections on 6-9 June 2024.
Complete version
- April 2024: Revised rules on the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) (3rd edition)
| Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Maritime Safety Agency and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 | ||
| Committee responsible: | Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) | COM(2023)269 1.6.2023 |
| Rapporteur: | Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar (EPP, Portugal) | 2023/0163(COD) |
| Shadow rapporteurs: | Sara Cerdas (S&D, Portugal) Caroline Nagtegaal (Renew, the Netherlands) Jutta Paulus (Greens/EFA, Germany) Roberts Zīle (ECR, Latvia) João Pimenta Lopes (The Left, Portugal) | Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’) |
| Next steps expected: | Awaiting Council’s first-reading position | |
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