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5.05 THETIS EU Ship Recycling
Agency responsible
Data group
05. Ship Inspection Support and Port State Control
Coast Guard Functions with access
Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management
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Maritime Environmental Protection & Response
Maritime Search and Rescue
Ship Casualty & Maritime Assistance Service
Maritime Accident and Disaster Response
Fisheries Inspection & Control
Status of implementation
Available
Dissemination channels
Agency web interface
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Description
Information on performed ship-inspections with the aim to enforce compliance with Regulation 1257/2013 on Ship Recycling.
Data elements
Regulation 1257/2013 provides for a comprehensive set of rules and regulations for ship recycling which apply to Flag States, ships and recycling facilities. The Regulation is a precursor of the international Hong Kong Convention which, due to very high ratification thresholds, may never enter into force.
Legal basis
The legal basis for inspections sits in both the Regulation Art 11 (inspection by competent authority itself) and in Directive 2009/16 in case inspections on foreign ships are performed by PSC.
Scope and source of data
Data emanates from ship inspections (only). No data on facilities or on Inventories of Hazardous materials is inspected, other than as part of the ship inspection. The ship inspection is also only a enforcement inspection and not an authorisation. Details of the inspection, findings and actions taken as result thereof are recorded in THETIS respectively THETIS EU.
Technical implementation
There is one Ship Recycling 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 to which Regulation (EU) 1257/2013 applies. All data is stored centrally.
All data related to pre-arrival, arrivals and departures is collected through SSN and subsequently transmitted to THETIS (EU) where the information is stored, processed and made presentable for the authorised user.
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 to facilitate the data sharing process between PSC and the Competent Authority for Ship Recycling;
- Has an inbound webservice from SSN for notification details;
- has currently no public search engine or aggregated data presentation.
inspection information regarding ship recycling is not yet available. The relevant module of THETIS EU will go live in [May 2020]
Conditions of access
Access to data and the system is divided in two distinct methods:
- Access to data: Data on Recycling findings as collected during PSC inspections will be available through the public search-engine for PSC data. Data collected during enforcement inspections done by the competent authority is not planned to be made public.
- 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;
Access rights to data other than to the Member States is not foreseen in the Regulation. However, the Regulation foresees a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 which is the appropriate forum to discuss access rights and data access.