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5.03 THETIS EU Port Reception Facilities
Agency responsible
Data group
05. Ship Inspection Support and Port State Control
Coast Guard Functions with access
Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management
Maritime Ship and Port Security
Status of implementation
Available
Dissemination channels
Agency web interface
Point(s) of contact
Last reviewed on
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Description
Information on performed inspections with the aim to enforce compliance with Directive (EU) 2000/59 on port reception facilities (PRF) for ship-generated waste and cargo residues. This Directive will be repealed by Directive 2019/883 entering into effect on 28 June 2021. The latter is a more detailed version of the previous edition.
Data elements
The new Directive entering into effect on 28 June 2021 contains an extensive list of details comprising ship specifics as well as pre-arrival and departure information regarding waste types and volumes.
Specified in Annex 2, 3 and 5 (Dir 2019/883).
Quite a lot of these details are already manually collected in THETIS EU; the new element will be that this will all come through SSN.
Legal basis
Article 13 and 14 of Directive (EU) 2019/883 as amended.
Scope and source of data
All ships operating in the EU area are to comply with the provisions on delivery of ship generated waste and cargo residues. The operational part of the Directive requires per-arrival notifications specifying the type and volume of waste collected on board. After delivery in port and upon departure, similar notifications have to be provided. The information shall be routed through SSN and be relayed to THETIS EU with an aim to serve the competent authorities on the Member States when selecting ships for inspections, perform and follow-up of inspections as well as to generate statistics on volumes generated and landed.
Technical implementation
There is one PRF information system for the entire region: THETIS-EU. This is a web-based application funded by the Commission, managed, operated and hosted by EMSA for and on behalf of all States of the Paris MoU. All data is stored centrally.
All data detailed in the notifications is collected through SSN for every arrival and departure and subsequently transmitted to THETIS EU where the information is stored, processed and made presentable for the authorised user. Inspection results will be returned on request to the SSN competent authorities in order to provide feedback on the reported information.
To be noted is that Port State Control also covers part of the provisions of the PRF Directive but not everything. It may therefore be seen as complementary.
The system:
- is used by means of a graphical interface available to authorised users;
- has a deeply embedded webservice to exchange data between THETIS and THETIS-EU PRF to reduce the administrative burden in case an inspection would do both a PRF inspection and a PSC inspection on the same ship at the same time;
- Has an inbound webservice from SSN for notification details, and an outbound webservice to SSN for inspection results;
- has no public search engine or aggregated data presentation
- inspection information is available as far back as 2016.
Conditions of access
Access to data and the system is divided in two distinct methods:
- Access to data: Data is not published or otherwise available;
- Access to the system: Each participating State has a National Coordinator who decides on the relevance of the request for an account, and is responsible afterwards for user management;
The Directive is placed in the remit of the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) established by Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002, which is therefore the appropriate forum where data access and system integration may be discussed.