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Abbreviation: ESSF

Policy Area: Transport

Lead DG: DG Mobility and Transport

Type: Formal

Scope: Broad

Mission: The ESSF should provide a platform for a structural dialogue, exchange of technical knowledge, cooperation, and coordination amongst relevant maritime industries' stakholders and the Commission and its services to better address the environmental sustainability challenges confronting the EU maritime transport sector.

Task: Assist the Commission in the preparation of delegated acts

Contact: -

Publication in RegExp: 01/10/2013

Creating Act: -

Last updated: 14/06/2023

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Activity report: Initially the ESSF was operating with the following structure: a Stakeholder Plenary, a Secretariat, and 6 non-permanent technical Expert Sub-Groups (SGs) as deemed necessary to support the Commission to advance the implementation of the Sustainable Waterborne Transport Toolbox (SEC(2011)1052 of 16 September 2011). These are: SG on Implementation of the Sulphur Directive, SG on LNG as a marine fuel, SG on Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems, SG on Research and Innovation, SG on Competitiveness and EG on Financing. In December 2014 a new SG on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) was established in order to facilitate the work of the Commission to improve the implementation of the operation of the Directive 2000/59/EC on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues, and to discuss and provide feedback to the Commission on PRF related issues. In June 2015 two SGs have been closed - SG on Implementation and SG on Research and Innovation. At the same time, two new sub-groups on MRV shipping (monitoring, reporting, veritication) have been established, in order to elaborate on elements of the additional legal acts (implementing and delegated acts) required by Regulation 2015/757 on monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport and amending Directive 2009/16/EC. One MRV shipping expert sub-group deals with monitoring of cargo carried and monitoring methods and a second one with verification and accreditation under the MRV Regulation. All expert sub-groups work on the basis of Terms of Reference (ToR) proposed by the Commission and validated by the Plenary. Those are internal rules subject to changes by the ESSF Plenary. Therefore they are not published here. The Commission chairs the ESSF and its SGs. As a rule, the ESSF Plenary is convened two times per year. The expert sub-groups meet at least two times per year. They keep the technical secretariat informed about the progress of their work.The groups shall be disbanded as soon as its mandate is fulfilled, which will be decided by the ESSF Plenary. The Commission Decision C(2013)5984 of 24 September 2013 was amended by the Commission Decision C(2015)9741 adopted on 7 January 2016. It extended the duration of the mandate for the ESSF by the end of June 2018.

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/sustainable/news/2016-04-04-essf-call-for-applications_en.htm

Activity report: 1st meeting of the European Sustainable Shipping Forum, Brussels, 27th of November 2013

AGENDA - ESSF FIRST PLENARY MEETING 27NOV13 register.pdf (approx. 186 kb)

Summary report.pdf (approx. 73 kb)

Activity report: 2nd meeting of the European Sustainable Shipping Forum, Brussels, 26th of June 2014

Draft AGENDA - ESSF Second MEETING 26JUN14.pdf (approx. 306 kb)

Public minutes 2ND Plenary ESSF.pdf (approx. 246 kb)

2014 09 12 Draft IGF-Code standard connectors NO.PDF (approx. 31 kb)

MEPC 67-4-22 - Request for application of calculation-based methodology for verification of the wash water discharg... (Austria, Belgium, Bulgari...).pdf (approx. 68 kb)

MEPC 67-12-7 - Outcome of PPR 1Additional sentence to appendix V of the MARPOL Annex VI - Information to be include... (Austria, Belgium, Bulgari...).pdf (approx. 158 kb)

Submission to MSC94 for LNG BDN.pdf (approx. 333 kb)

Activity report: 3rd meeting of the European Sustainable Shipping Forum, Brussels, 4th of December 2014

Agenda.pdf (approx. 271 kb)

Document 2.pdf (approx. 175 kb)

Document 3.pdf (approx. 2836 kb)

Document 4.pdf (approx. 333 kb)

Document 5.pdf (approx. 1562 kb)

Activity report: 1st Meeting of ESSF on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) 23.02.2015 - Agenda and Minutes

PRF Subgroup.PreliminaryAgenda 1stmeeting.23_2_2015.docx (approx. 20 kb)

150410 Minutes.docx (approx. 72 kb)

Activity report: 2nd Meeting of ESSF on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) 28.04.2015 - Agenda and Minutes

PRF Subgroup Agenda 2nd meeting.pdf (approx. 90 kb)

150703 Final Minutes of the Second ESSF Sub-Group on PRF.docx (approx. 97 kb)

Activity report: 4th meeting of the European Sustainable Shipping Forum, Brussels, 16.06.2015 Agenda Summary Report Final Report from the ESSF Implementation Sub Group Final Report from the LNG Sub Group Final report from the Research and Innovation Sub-group

Updated Agenda 4th ESSF Plenary.pdf (approx. 230 kb)

Public summary of the 4th ESSF Plenary meeting (2).doc (approx. 24 kb)

Agenda 7 Final report ESSF LNG June 2015.pdf (approx. 1660 kb)

Agenda 8 Final report RI.pdf (approx. 2150 kb)

Final Rpt Implementation ENVI.pdf (approx. 656 kb)

Activity report: 3rd Meeting of ESSF on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) 01.10.2015 - Agenda and Minutes

Minutes of the Third ESSF Sub-Group on PRFrev .pdf (approx. 482 kb)

Agenda 3rdmeetingPRFSubgroup fin.docx (approx. 27 kb)

Activity report: Agenda and Summary report of the 5th meeting of the European Sustainable Shipping Forum, Brussels, 26t.01.2016 and two submissions to the IMO

Draft agenda 26 january 2016 5th ESSF Plenary meeting v1.pdf (approx. 86 kb)

Summary report 5th Meeting of the ESSF.docx (approx. 18 kb)

MEPC 69-19 - Review of the 2015 Guidelines for exhaust gas cleaning systems (resolution MEPC.259(68)) (Austria Belgium Bulgari...).pdf (approx. 276 kb)

PPR 3-10 - Amendment to the last paragraph of appendix V of MARPOL Annex VI (Information to be includ... (Austria Belgium Bulgari....pdf (approx. 125 kb)

Activity report: 4th Meeting of ESSF on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) 03.03.2016- Agenda and Minutes

Agenda - ESSF March 2016 .finvs.docx (approx. 22 kb)

Minutes of the Third ESSF Sub-Group on PRF .docx (approx. 97 kb)

Activity report: 9th Meeting of the ESSF Sub-Group on EGCS 10/05/2016 - Draft Agenda

Draft agenda ESSF EGCS 9 10 05 2016.pdf (approx. 208 kb)

Activity report: 5th Meeting of ESSF on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) 25.05.2016- Agenda and Minutes

Agenda - ESSF PRF 25 May 2016.pdf (approx. 177 kb)

Activity report: 6th Meeting of the ESSF Forum (Plenary) 28.06.2016 - Meeting Documents

Summary report of the 6th Meeting of the ESSF.pdf (approx. 403 kb)

Updated agenda 6th ESSF Plenary meeting.pdf (approx. 137 kb)

Participants list MS- signed.pdf (approx. 419 kb)

Participants list Private- signed.pdf (approx. 490 kb)

Minutes 6th ESSF Plenary final .pdf (approx. 217 kb)

Annex I to the Minutes of ESSF 6 - TERMS OF REFERENCE Air Emission from Ships SG.pdf (approx. 472 kb)

Activity report: 10th meeting of ESSF Sub-group on EGCS - 15.09.2016

Draft agenda for ESSF EGCS 15 Sept.pdf (approx. 219 kb)

Activity report: 6th Meeting of ESSF on Port Reception Facilities (PRF) 04.10.2016 - Agenda

Preliminary Agenda PRF Meeting 04.10.16.pdf (approx. 205 kb)

Activity report: 7th Joint Meeting of the ESSF Sub-Groups on Financing and Competitiveness 12.10.2016 - Agenda + Presentations

Agenda (final).pdf (approx. 303 kb)

Item 2.2 MoS.pdf (approx. 221 kb)

Item 3.1.pdf (approx. 359 kb)

Item 4.1.pdf (approx. 807 kb)

Item 6.1 - Impl Report of the EU Mar Transport Strategy (MOVE D1-BS) V2 final.pdf (approx. 1477 kb)

Item 2.1.pdf (approx. 486 kb)

Item 2.2 Innovation.pdf (approx. 206 kb)

AOB H2020.pdf (approx. 507 kb)

Item 7.1.pdf (approx. 229 kb)

Activity report: 7th Meeting of the ESSF Forum (Plenary) 24.01.2017 - Draft Agenda + Meeting Documents

Draft agenda for ESSF Plenary 7 on 24 JAN 2017.pdf (approx. 237 kb)

Agenda item 5 Final Report from the ESSF SG Financing.pdf (approx. 4712 kb)

Agenda item 6 MoS DIP final .pdf (approx. 4826 kb)

Agenda item 7 ESSF Submission SG Competitiveness.pdf (approx. 446 kb)

Agenda item 10 EGCS SG progress report.pdf (approx. 1073 kb)

Agenda item 11 - PRF SG progress report .pdf (approx. 428 kb)

Agenda item 13 CompMon project - Best_Practices_Airborne_MARPOL_Annex_VI_Monitoring.pdf (approx. 3274 kb)

Agenda item 8a LNG progress report.pdf (approx. 486 kb)

Agenda item 8b - Information Paper_LNG Bunkering Guidance.pdf (approx. 1865 kb)

Plan of ESSF meetings in 2017 .pdf (approx. 175 kb)

Annotations to agenda for ESSF Plenary 7.pdf (approx. 507 kb)

Draft minutes from Plenary 7.pdf (approx. 412 kb)

Activity report: 7th Meeting of the ESSF on PRF (Port Reception Facilities) 02.02.2017 - Draft Agenda + Minutes

Agenda.pdf (approx. 205 kb)

Minutes_7th PRF_SG_2_Feb_2017.pdf (approx. 252 kb)

Activity report: 11th Meeting of the ESSF Sub-Group on EGCS 23.02.2017 - Draft Agenda + Minutes

Draft agenda ESSF EGCS 11 23 February 2017.pdf (approx. 214 kb)

ESSF EGCS_ Minutes 11th meeting.pdf (approx. 730 kb)

Activity report: 1st Meeting of the sub-group on air Emission from Ships set up under the ESSF Forum - 05/04/2017 -Terms of reference, Agenda and Minutes of the

20170504_TOR SG AEfS u ESSF_1853975.pdf (approx. 474 kb)

20170504_Draft Agenda SG AEfS u ESSF_1853975.pdf (approx. 218 kb)

2017-05-04_ESSF-SG-AEfS_MoM-1st Meeting_DRAFT.pdf (approx. 649 kb)

Activity report: 12th Meeting of the ESSF Sub-Group on EGCS 11.04.2017 - Draft Agenda + Minutes

Draft Agenda ESSF EGCS 12.pdf (approx. 102 kb)

Minutes ESSF SG EGCS 2017 04 11.pdf (approx. 740 kb)

Activity report: 13th Meeting of the ESSF Sub-Group on EGCS 27.06.2017 - Draft Agenda

Draft Agenda 13th Meeting ESSF EGCS 2017 06 27.pdf (approx. 79 kb)

Activity report: 8th Meeting of the sub-group on competitiveness of EU Maritime Transport, 22/09/2017

20170922 Agenda Competitiveness subgroup.doc.pdf (approx. 93 kb)

Activity report: 2nd Meeting of the sub-group on air Emission from Ships set up under the ESSF Forum - 2/10/2017 - Agenda

Draft Agenda SG AEfS_171002.pdf (approx. 165 kb)

2017-10-02_ESSF-SG-AEfS_MoM-2nd Meeting_DRAFT V6 final for reg.pdf (approx. 1004 kb)

Activity report: 8th meeting "PLENARY ESSF" - 16/10/2017 - Agenda and documents

Draft Agenda ESSF 8th Plenary_.pdf (approx. 166 kb)

Agenda item 3 PRF subgroup report to Plenary.pdf (approx. 357 kb)

Agenda item 6 submission Sub-group on Competitiveness to ESSF Plenary 8th .pdf (approx. 566 kb)

Agenda item 8 ESSF EGCS progress report.pdf (approx. 485 kb)

Updated Indicative Plan of ESSF meetings in 2017.pdf (approx. 179 kb)

Activity report: Following the Commission Decision of 27.07.2018 C(2018) 4908 final, the Commission has renewed the mandate of the group of experts on maritime transport sustainability, the European Sustainable Shipping Forum (ESSF).

EN_C_2018_4908.pdf (approx. 170 kb)

Selection procedure: The members of the ESSF plenary representing Member States authorites shall be appointed by the respective Authorities. Organizations representing a common interest (professional associations) shall be appointed on the basis of applications put forward by the Stakeholders concerned. This selection procedure is launched by the Commission through a an open call for application addressed to all relevant stakeholder groups : The participants of the ESSF consist of one representative per Member State (+ one alternate) and one representative of selected organizations (+ one alternate). The representatives of the members of the European Economic Area may attend ESSF meetings as observers. Members shall nominate their representatives, and their alternates, to the ESSF until 31.12.2015. The duration of the Forum has been until 31.06.2018. Commission Decision C(2015)9741 final of 7.01.2016 on the extention of duration of the ESSF Forum. This implies a new call for applications for membership (deadline 2.5.2016) Beschluss der Kommission C(2015)9741 endg. vom 7.01.2016 über die Verlängerung des ESSF Forums. Dies bedeutet einen neuen Bewerbungsaufruf für neue Mitlgieder (Einsendeschluss 2.5.2016) Décision de la Commission C(2015)9741 final du 7.01.2016 sur l'extension de la duration du Forum ESSF. Ceci implique un nouveau appel à candidature pour des nouveaux membres (date limite 2.5.2016) Call for applications (pdf and doc) Annexes (pdf and doc) EMSA and TEN-T shall be represented in the ESSF.

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/sustainable/news/2016-04-04-essf-call-for-applications_en.htm

Organisations call for applications ESSF 2016.pdf (approx. 130 kb)

Organisations annexes Call for Applications ESSF 2016.pdf (approx. 229 kb)

Organisations call for applications ESSF 2016.docx (approx. 51 kb)

Organisations annexes Call for Applications ESSF 2016.docx (approx. 55 kb)

1_EN_ACT_part1_v3.pdf (approx. 102 kb)

1_FR_ACT_part1_v2.pdf (approx. 160 kb)

1_DE_ACT_part1_v2.pdf (approx. 106 kb)

Selection procedure: Call for applications for the selection of members of the sub-group on air emissions from ships operating under the European Sustainable Shipping Forum - Deadline 23/01/2017

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/maritime/news/2016-12-22-essf-call_en

ESSF_SG_AE_Open Call.pdf (approx. 213 kb)

Selection procedure: Members of this group (type A, B, C) are selected via a call for applications. The deadline was 10/10/2018. The selection procedure is completed, these members will be published in the Register.

https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/maritime/news/2018-09-10-call-for-applications-essf_en

ESSF_ CALL 101018_ARES.pdf (approx. 703 kb)

Selection procedure: By decision of 27 July 20181 the Commission has renewed the mandate of the sub-groups of experts on maritime transport sustainability, the European Sustainable Shipping Forum (ESSF). 1. The sub-group on Air Emissions from Ships (AefS), 2. Sub-group on Sustainable Alternative Power for Shipping. 3. Sub-group on Ship Energy Efficiency, 4. Sub-group on Waste from Ships (Port Reception Facilities and Ship Source Pollution). DG MOVE is CONTINUOUSLY OPEN CALL for applications with a view to selecting members for the three new above-mentioned sub-groups other than Member States’ authorities, other public entities and existing members of the ESSF.

http:// http:// https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/maritime/news/2019-09-05-continuously-open-call-essf_en

Selection procedure: The group consists of Type A, B, C, D and E members

Rules of procedure: The rules of procedure adapted on 27 november 2013

E02869 ESSF Rules of Procedure.pdf (approx. 30 kb)

Rules of procedure: Following the Commission Decision of 27.07.2018 C(2018) 4908 final, new Rules of Procedure had been adapted at the 1st Meeting of the new ESSF(23 January 2019)

ESSF 2018 RoP.pdf (approx. 141 kb)

Rules of procedure: Terms of Reference for three new subgroups, approved by the ESSF Plenary in August 2019

Subgroup_ Alternative Fuels - ToR_FINAL_010819.pdf (approx. 335 kb)

Subgroup_Ship_Energy_ Efficiency_final_ToRs_010819.pdf (approx. 256 kb)

SubgroupWaste_from_Ships- final_ToRs_010819.pdf (approx. 270 kb)

Other: Information on the Call for applications (pdf and doc) Annexes (pdf and doc) is under "selection procedure"

Subgroups

Air Emissions from Ships

Ship Energy Efficiency

Sustainable Alternative Power for Shipping- Mid- to Long-Term Solutions for Maritime GHG Emissions Reductions

Waste from Ships(Port Reception Facilities & Ship-Source Pollution )

Working Group of the Implementation of the FuelEU Maritime Regulation