On 17 November 2021, the European Commission tabled a proposal to revise EU rules governing shipments of waste. The proposed regulation aims at easing shipments of waste for reuse and recycling in the EU, to support the transition to a circular economy; ensuring that waste exported from the EU is managed in an environmentally sound manner in the destination countries; and stepping up enforcement to counteract illegal shipments of waste. While supporting the proposed streamlining and digitalisation of procedures, stakeholders have stressed the need for significant improvements to ensure that the new regulation fulfils its objectives, in particular as regards exports of waste.

EPRS policy podcast - Revision of the EU's Waste Shipment Regulation

The FuelEU Maritime regulation seeks to steer the EU maritime sector towards decarbonisation. The proposal sets up a fuel standard for ships and introduces a requirement for the most polluting ship types to use onshore electricity when at berth. It puts the responsibility for compliance on the shipping company. The legislative outcome of this proposal will be closely linked to the simultaneously proposed rules on including the maritime sector in the EU emissions trading system, as well as those on alternative fuels infrastructure, energy taxation and renewable energy. Moreover, some of the proposed rules do not concern EU shipping only but have wider implications for international maritime shipping, which is regulated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

EPRS policy podcast - Sustainable maritime fuels - 'Fit for 55' package: the FuelEU Maritime proposal

Official visit of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Poland (Warsaw) - Flower Laying moment at the Monument of Fallen Shipyard Workers

LIBE Committee - Exchange of views on the migrant boat shipwreck off the coast of Greece

Safety rules and standards for passenger ships - Registration of persons sailing on board passenger ships operating to or from ports of the Member States - System of inspections for the safe operation of ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft in regular service (debate) (debate)

Shipments of waste (debate)

Enforcement of regulations on the shipping of toxic waste to developing countries (debate)

Reporting formalities for ships arriving in or departing from ports

Reporting formalities for ships arriving in or departing from ports (debate)

Ship-source pollution and penalties for infringements (debate)

Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (debate)

Common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (recast) - Common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations (recast) - Port State control (recast) - Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system - Investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector - The liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents - Civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners - Compliance with flag State requirements (debate)

Reform programme of the Polish shipyards (debate)

Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system - Investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector - The liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of an accident - Port State control (recast) - Ship inspection and survey organisations (Directive recast) - Ship inspection and survey organisations (Regulation recast) (continuation of debate)

Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system - Investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector - The liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of an accident - Port State control (recast) - Ship inspection and survey organisations (Directive recast) - Ship inspection and survey organisations (Regulation recast) (debate)

EP Plenary session - Shipments of waste

EP Plenary session - Global data collection system for ship fuel oil consumption data

Express Delivery Services & International Shipping operator

SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE); SMEEDEGAARD, Niels - President of the ECSA (European Community Shipowners‚Äô Associations); HARTMANN, Alfred - President of VDR (German Shipowners' Association);

EP President meets with the President of the ECSA (European Community Shipowners‚Äô Associations) and the President of VDR (German Shipowners' Association)

SEDE committee meeting on ' Securing commercial shipping lanes against piracy '

EP Delegation to COP 21 - UN Climate Change conference in Paris. EP Side event : ' Global market-based mechanisms for reducing emissions from aviation and shipping '

Plenary session week 16 2014 in Strasbourg - Shipments of waste

Covid-19 pandemic: Taïwan donations to Europe

A shipment of donations of aid from Taiwan to combat Covid-19 arrives by airplane from Taipeh to Luxemburg airport on April 9, 2020. The shipment includes masks with destination Italy and Spain, as well as bilateral donations to other Member States.

Ship dismantling in a scrap yard in the port of Ghent, belgium.

A staff member is testing life jackets at Survitec Service and Distribution (SSD), a Safety company for marine equipment

ENVI Committee meeting - Vote on Ship Recycling

Public hearing Island Transport Connectivity and the Green Transformation of the Shipbuilding industry

Rapporteur for a reinforcement of the maritime security following the Prestige shipwreck, receives a petition signed by 20,000 people claiming for a parliamentary investigation committee

MEP Geoffrey VAN ORDEN testing a ship simulator at the European Parliament in Brussels

On the occasion of her official visit to Poland, EP President Roberta METSOLA meets with Lech WALESA, former President of Poland.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Gdansk (Poland): meeting with Lech WAŁĘSA, former President of Poland and Flower-Laying Ceremony at the Monument of Fallen Shipyard Workers

MEPs of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) discuss with Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, and Hans LEIJTENS, Frontex's Executive director, about the migrant boat shipwreck off the coastal town of Pylos (Greece), where on June 14 at least 79 migrants drowned and hundreds more were missing.

Exchange of views on the migrant boat shipwreck off the coast of Greece: extracts

MEPs vote on the following topics: EU/New Zealand Agreement - exchange of personal data between Europol and New Zealand; Convention on Cybercrime on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence - Second Additional Protocol; Defence of privileges and immunity and Rule 9 on procedures on immunity

Voting session, including the Shipments of waste and the Defence of privileges and immunity and Rule 9 on procedures on immunity

MEPs debate on its negotiating position for talks with EU governments on a new law to reform EU procedures and control measures for waste shipments. Closing statements by Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries and by Pernille WEISS (EPP, DK), Rapporteur

Shipments of waste: closing statements by Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries and by Pernille WEISS (EPP, DK), Rapporteur

MEPs debate on its negotiating position for talks with EU governments on a new law to reform EU procedures and control measures for waste shipments.

Shipments of waste: MEPs debate

Parliament debate on its negotiating position for talks with EU governments on a new law to reform EU procedures and control measures for waste shipments. Opening statements by Pernille WEISS (EPP, DK), Rapporteur and by Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries.

Shipments of waste: opening statements by Pernille WEISS (EPP, DK), Rapporteur and by Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

Members of the ENVI (Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) Committee vote on draft legislation to better protect the environment and human health from the shipment of waste. It includes provisions to facilitate shipments of waste for reuse and recycling in the EU and ensure the EU does not export its waste challenges to non-EU countries. Extracts from the vote and statement by the rapporteur.

Shipments of waste and amending Regulations: extracts from the vote and statement by Pernille WEISS (EPP,DK), Rapporteur

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, opens the plenary session on the 3 October in Strasbourg. Statement on Nicaragua’s decision to expel the Dutch ambassador and on the anniversary of the 9th anniversary of migrant shipwreck at Lampedusa (October 2013).

Opening statement by Roberta METSOLA, EP President on Nicaragua’s decision to expel the Dutch ambassador and on the 9th anniversary of migrant shipwreck at Lampedusa (October 2013)

David SASSOLI, EP President, opens the plenary session (9-10 October 2019) of the European Parliament in Brussels. He makes a tribute to Jacques CHIRAC, former French President and former MEP. President Sassoli also invited the house to a minute of silence for the victims of the latest shipwreck near Lampedusa (Italy) and the tragic events in Halle (Germany).

Introductory remarks by David SASSOLI, EP President: tribute to Jacques CHIRAC, former French President and former MEP, minute of silence for the victims of latest shipwreck in Lampedusa and tragic events in Halle

Tá rialacháin maidir le longa paisinéirí agus báid fartha á n-uasdátú ag Parlaimint na hEorpa chun lúba ar lár i gcigireachtaí sábháilteachta a dhúnadh agus an scóip a leathnú chun cineálacha nua long a chlúdach. Faoi na rialacha nua freisin is gá sonraí faoi phaisinéirí a tharchur go digiteach chuig údaráis náisiúnta, ionas gur féidir an fhaisnéis a sheoladh ar aghaidh chuig seirbhísí tarrthála agus teaghlaigh i gcás taisme.

Éascaíonn rialacha nua maidir le sonraí faoi phaisinéirí loinge tarrtháil níos tapa

EP Delegation to COP 21 in Le Bourget Conference Center in Paris. EP side event on "Global market-based mechanisms for reducing emissions from aviation and shipping". Statements by Martin CAMES, Öko Institut, Alice BOWS-LARKIN, University of Manchester, Jasper FABER, CE Delft, and Jos DELBEKE, DG CLIMA, European Commission

EP Delegation to COP 21: extracts from the EP side event on "Global market-based mechanisms for reducing emissions from aviation and shipping"

Aung San Suu Kyi will finally receive the Sakharov Prize she won in 1990 in Strasbourg as MEPs vote on a key crime report and medical device regulation.

On the Agenda: Suu Kyi claims Sakharov Prize, organised crime, ship recycling

MEPs to launch inquiry into US spying, and vote on controversial plans to dismantle toxic ships outside the EU and on the Tobacco Products Directive.

Prism / Ship recycling / Tobacco

MEPs hear from the EU's new ambassador to Libya, scrutinise financial bailout instruments and review passenger safety on ships.

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