FuelEU Maritime: full utility 1 January 2025 – Regulation promotes using renewable, low-carbon fuels for ships
From 1 January 2025, the FuelEU Maritime Regulation will apply in full. The Regulation promotes using renewable, low-carbon fuels and clear vitality applied sciences for ships, thereby supporting the decarbonisation of the maritime sector. It units discount targets on the greenhouse fuel depth of the vitality used on ships working buying and selling inside the EU or European Financial Space (EEA).
The Regulation goals to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions from the transport sector by selling using cleaner fuels and vitality and supporting the decarbonisation of the maritime transport sector by setting most limits on the yearly greenhouse fuel depth of the vitality utilized by a ship. The boundaries will turn out to be extra formidable over time, from a lower of two% in 2025 to as a lot as 80% by 2050. Discover out extra in regards to the FuelEU Maritime Regulation.
THETIS-MRV: updates and developments
EMSA has been supporting the implementation of FuelEU Maritime with technical experience and the event and enhancement of the reporting platform, THETIS-MRV.
Articles 8 and 9 of the Regulation, which laid out the necessities associated to the submission of monitoring plans, have been in power from 31 August 2024. By that time, THETIS-MRV had already been tailored and up to date with new developments to allow transport firms to adjust to their reporting obligations.
Additional THETIS-MRV deployments are scheduled in keeping with the necessities of the Regulation, together with the submission of partial FuelEU emission stories in case of transfers of firms.
Sources and steering for business
Along with the Directorate-Basic for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) on the European Fee, EMSA has additionally developed a variety of assets to help maritime stakeholders with the adjustments beneath the Regulation. A devoted helpdesk has additionally been made out there via the e-mail handle fitfor55(at)emsa.europa.eu and maritimesupportservices(at)emsa.europa.eu.
The assets already out there embody webinars, usually up to date questions and solutions, and video tutorials. Work is constant to develop extra assets, together with additional steering and webinars organised by EMSA in collaboration with the European Fee to offer data on the subsequent steps within the implementation of FuelEU Maritime, together with the chances beneath the pliability mechanisms.
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FuelEU Maritime: full utility 1 January 2025 – Regulation promotes using renewable, low-carbon fuels for ships, supply
