Activites

• 2006/03/04 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2006/336
  • OJ L 064 04.03.2006, p. 0001-0036
• 2006/02/15 Final act signed
• 2006/02/15 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2005/12/13 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0494/2005 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Paolo COSTA (ADLE, IT), and approved the Council’s common position

• 2005/11/17 Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading
  • A6-0325/2005
• 2005/11/14 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
• 2005/09/08 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2676
• 2005/07/18 Council Meeting
  • 06919/1/2005 summary

    The Council supports the need to replace regulation 3051/95 with a new text obliging all companies and ships covered by the SOLAS Convention to apply the ISM Code. It acknowledges that the new Regulation will facilitate the correct, strict and harmonised implementation of the Code in all Member States. The Council, however, seeks to go further than the Commission’s initial proposal. Those provisions include:-         An extension of the Regulation’s scope to include all ships flying the flag of a Member State on domestic voyages and ships, regardless of their flag, exclusively engaged on domestic voyages or operating to or from ports of Member States on a regular shipping service. For reasons of proportionality, passenger ships, (other than ro-ro passenger ferries, operating less than five miles from the coastline) as well as cargo ships and mobile off shore drilling units of less than 55 gross tonnage are excluded from the scope.-         Definitions have been refined and, where appropriate, aligned in accordance with existing international instruments. This takes account of high-speed crafts, passenger submersible crafts, ro-ro ferries and mobile off-shore drilling units as well as specifications relating to gross tonnage measurements.-         Community legislation implementing international legal instruments should be aligned as much as possible to these instruments. Documents should correspond to those of the ISM Code. All such documents should be accepted by the Member States.-         The Common Position takes account of varying shipping conditions in the EU’s Member States and as such has provided for certain derogations; This applies mostly to cases where it may be, practically speaking, difficult for companies to comply with specific paragraphs of the ISM Code for certain categories of ships exclusively engaged on domestic voyages. Derogations must be notified.Lastly, the Common Position incorporates a number of mainly technical modifications, which are necessary in order to bring the text in line with existing Community legislation.

• #Prés
• 2004/12/09 Council Meeting
• 2004/03/10 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0156/2004 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report drafted by Paolo COSTA (ELDR, I), and approved the Commission's proposal.�

• 2004/02/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0074/2004
• 2003/12/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2003/12/11 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2003)0767 summary

    PURPOSE : to enhance the safe management, safe operation and pollution prevention of ships flying the flag of a Member State and of all ro-ro passenger ferries operating on a regular service to or from ports of the Member States of the European Union. PROPOSED ACT : Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. CONTENT : the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and Pollution Prevention (International Safety management (ISM) Code) was adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) 10 years ago1 to provide a blueprint for the way shipping companies should manage and operate their fleets and to promote the development of a widespread safety culture and environmental conscience in shipping. By defining the company's responsibility for safety and ensuring that senior management could more easily be held accountable, the code seeks to ensure that safety should be given top priority. The purpose of this Regulation is to enhance the safe management, safe operation and pollution prevention of: - Cargo ships, flying the flag of a Member State, engaged on international and domestic voyages; - Passenger ships, flying the flag of a Member State, engaged on international voyages; - Passenger ships engaged on domestic voyages in sea areas of Class A and B, as defined in article 4 of Directive 98/18/EC, regardless of their flag; - Ro-Ro passenger ferries operating to or from ports of the Member States of the Community on a regular ro-ro passenger ferry service, regardless of their flag; - Cargo ships, operating to or from ports of the Member States of the Community on a cabotage feeder service, regardless of their flag. The purpose of this Regulation is to maintain in parallel the existing EU ISM rules applicable to ro-ro ferries, irrespective of their flag and sailing on a regular service to and from European ports. The scope of the proposed Regulation is based on the provisions of Chapter IX of SOLAS, and applies, with restriction concerning the gross tonnage of the ships concerned, to all ships falling under the scope of the SOLAS Convention and flying the flag of a Member State, even if they operate on domestic voyages. Nevertheless for passenger ships operating on domestic voyages the provisions will only apply to passenger ships operating more than 5 miles from the coastline, but these rules will apply to all flags. Any Companies operating one or more of the above mentioned ships will have to comply with the Regulation. For ships flying the flag of a third country, in so far as they do not operate on domestic voyages within the Community and for the Companies operating them which already apply the requirements of Chapter IX of SOLAS, compliance with SOLAS will be checked through the port State control regime set up under Directive 95/21/EC, as amended.�

  • DG ['Energy and Transport'],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2003)0767
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0074/2004
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0156/2004
• Council position published: 06919/1/2005
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A6-0325/2005
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T6-0494/2005
• : Regulation 2006/336
• : OJ L 064 04.03.2006, p. 0001-0036

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)