Maritime transport

Legislation

Documents

Navires à passagers

• Communication from the Commission on the enhanced safety of passenger ships in the Community, COM(2002)158
   
• Press release: European Commission fights to improve passenger protection on ships, IP/02/502
   
• Memo "Improving passenger ship safety, IP/02/502
   
• Press kit "Passenger safety on ships”

Erika

• October 2000 – Commission report for the Biarritz European Council of the Community’s strategy for safety at sea COM(2000) 603
   
• First communication, COM(2000) 142 Final
  The adopted measures: Directive 2001/105 - Directive 2001/106 - Regulation 417/2002
   
• Second communication, COM(2000) 802 Final
  The adopted measures: Directive 2002/59 - Regulation 1406/2002
   
• 27/11/2001 - Memo "ERIKA: two years on"
   
• 25/07/2003 - Entry into force of ERIKA I maritime safety measures on 22 July 2003 "ERIKA I maritime safety legislation enters into force: Commission takes action against 10 Member States" IP/03/1116
   

• 21/03/2000 - The Commission proposes radical measures to prevent oil pollution disasters on European coastlines IP/00/278

Prestige

• Council conclusions of 13.12.2002 on Ship's Safety and Pollution Prevention
   
• Motion for a European Parliament resolution on improving safety at sea in response to the Prestige accident
   
• European Parliament resolution on improving safety at sea
   
• 05/03/2003 - Communications from the Commission Report to the European Council on action to deal with the effects of the Prestige disaster COM(2003) 105 final
   
• 20/12/2002 - Communication from the Commission to the European parliament and to the Council on improving safety at sea in response to the PRESTIGE accident, COM(2002)681 final 
   
• 20/06/2005 - Mers plus sûres: un combat bien engagé - Le chemin parcouru depuis l’accident du Prestige
   
• 21/10/2003 - "Safer seas: the fight goes on - Update on the Prestige accident"
   
• 08/01/2003 - Press Kit "L'accident du Prestige" L'évolution de la situation, les mesures déjà prises, la réaction de la Commission
   
• June 2004 - Oil Tanker Phase Out and the Ship Scrapping Industry / Etude d'impact - recyclage des pétroliers à simple coque - A study on the implications of the accelerated phase out scheme of single hull tankers proposed by the EU for the world ship scrapping and recycling industry
   
• List of ships that were refused access to Community ports between 22 July and 1 November 2003, pursuant to Article 7b of Directive 95/21/EC of 19 June 1995 on the port State control of ships (2003/C 272/04)
   
• 14/11/2003 - One year after the Prestige, the Commission publishes the first list of ships banned from EU ports
   
• 03/12/2002 - The European Commission takes steps to ban substandard oil tankers from European waters, IP/02/1791
   
• 21/11/2002 - We could have avoided the PRESTIGE oil spill» says Loyola de Palacio at the European Parliament, IP/02/1721
   
• 21/11/2002 - Newsletter "Energy and Transport in Europe Digest" SPECIAL EDITION: THE PRESTIGE ACCIDENT

Short Sea Shipping

• Resolutions, Conclusions and Opinions
   
• Communications

Sea Ports

• Proposals, press releases, working documents, ...

Motorways of the Sea and Intermodality

• Documentations
   
• Press release 15/07/2004 "New funding for the trans-European energy and transport networks, Galileo and Marco Polo from 2007 to 2013"