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Marine Care Association

The target of Marine Care Association (former Euroshore International) is: - to protect the interests of companies involved in the environmentally sound collection, storage, treatment and disposal of ship waste - to transmit the views of its members on policies in progress or in preparation, to the relevant international and European institutions and study the problems relating to ship-generated waste that members face in their daily practice. - to represents its members in international forums to promote the use of high standard port reception facilities involved in the circular economy - to promote standards on the collection, storage, processing and disposal of ship-generated waste such as the standardization of codes, the creation and promotion of a uniform waste certificate. - to ensure a level playing field across Europe and beyond, and is committed to healthy and fair competition.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Commissioner) and

1 Jul 2025 · Strategic Dialogue on the EU Port Strategy

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Jan 2025 · ITRE/SEARICA

Response to Criteria for determining that a ship produces reduced quantities of waste

9 Nov 2021

EUROSHORE INTERNATIONAL welcome the objectives of the PRF directive and are keen on sharing their experience and expertise in ship waste management. However we would like to draw the attention of the Commission on the following points: - Article 1 states that port reception facilities and port authorities should take into account the criteria mentioned when calculating the reduction fee. It is important to note that port reception facilities do not establish prices! Ports are charging the fees. - OWS should not be a criteria for a reduction fee. The rule should be "all discharge at PRF/zero discharge at sea" because an onboard OWS will never be as efficient as an offshore OWS. It is also impossible to check whether it is on or off. It is contradictory to the IMO trend to stricter rules conducting to a growing limitation of discharge at sea. On one hand open loop scrubbers are getting limited/banned by many ports and on the other hand we accept discharge of OWS treatment. Even if you separate the water and the oil, you still have other contaminations from this water. If you want to keep OWS, we consider it should be limited to a certain type of waste water. The definition is too large. If we keep the same spirit, the discharge of scrubber waste (annex VI) should be a criteria for getting a reduction then. Since the introduction of the IMO sulphur cap legislation, members of EUROSHORE INTERNATIONAL (except a very limited number) have not received scrubber waste! Where does it go ? It is paradoxal to potentially get a reduction fee when discharging sewage at PRF and at the same time when not delivering waste water. Once again the oil might have been separated, there are still many contaminations in this water. An important point for selecting criteria would be to put criteria which can easily be checked, by the crew and/or by external parties.
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Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

EUROSHORE welcome the initiative of the European Commission to adopt a new Circular Economy action plan. Circular economy is an essential part for both contributing to a carbon neutral economy and to create new economic activities. The action plan will be attached to the new Industrial Strategy, but we do think that the circular economy covers more than industry. The spirit of all related legislations is to ensure that all recoverable materials are effectively diverted from disposal, to limit the use of new raw materials and consequently to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Therefore, there is a close link between circular economy, waste management and raw materials policy and we need them to be compatible. Euroshore members collect and treat waste from ships. Among other wastes, they deal with marine waste fuels, which they recover as fuel. As stated into the roadmap document, certain recycled materials are often less competitive due to their price. It is true with recovered materials as well. In many cases it depends on the recognition by the Member States of an end-of-waste status and on taxation systems application of these materials. The intention is to drastically reduce the use of fossil fuel. However, when fossil fuel is used, because of transition period or because there is no other solution for the time being, recovered fuel should be recognised in all Member states, under the same criteria, as new products. They should be encouraged when they avoid extracting new fuel and encouraged by economic incentives like lower tax rates than virgin fossil fuels taking into account the embedded costs and CO2 savings. It is better for the environment and help support the European energy independence, as stated by the European Parliament and the Council of The European Union in the Directive 2018/2001 of 11 December 2018 where it recognizes that “The promotion of recycled carbon fuels can contribute towards the policy objectives of energy diversification and decarbonisation of the transport sector where they fulfil the appropriate minimum greenhouse gas emissions savings threshold” As there is, until now, no European specific criteria published as regulation to define a European End of Waste status for waste fuels, we are limited by the existing national End of Waste criteria, which vary from one country to another. Homogeneous quality criteria European wide to guarantee the protection of health and the environment are necessary and we do believe that a European end-of-waste status should be developed in order to create a significant market under equal playing conditions. Otherwise recovered fuel will remain marginal and under exploited.
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