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Safe Seas: Can an Integrated Maritime Surveillance be

achieved by the EU?

European Economic and Social Committee 24 March 2015

DG MOVEMaritime Safety – Unit D2

Jacob Terling

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Can an Integrated Maritime Surveillance be achieved by the EU?

•Yes it can!

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• The Union Maritime Information and Exchange System (SSN), providing integrated maritime services

• Continuously developed, enhanced and enriched• User-driven, bottom up approach, dealing with real

operational needs• Main principles:• - use investments already made as efficiently as possible; • - build on the enhanced technical solutions available

through existing systems;• - avoid duplication.•

What the Union has already!

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Integration = user driven approach

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What can it do?

Not a system for the sake of having a system, but a system providing real operational support!

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EU Interagency cooperation

• EMSA provides tailor-made integrated formation services to EU NAVFOR (anti piracy), EFCA (fishery control) and Frontex (border control) as well as to EU Member States

• Multiple data sources (ship positions from different sensors: VMS, T-AIS, SAT-AIS, LRIT), data correlation and satellite Earth Observation.

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Further User Functions and Beneficiaries

• - supporting Coast Guard functions and needs, including Places of Refuge for ships in need of assistance

• - providing the maritime picture to FRONTEX (Sea Border Control)• - Ship emissions pilot project (the use of AIS data in the

assessment of ship air emissions). • - Exchange of radar data through SSN (about defining the

operational concept for exchanging radar images through the system) • - Ship Reference Database (developing a service that will support

Member States for their operational purposes). • - Blue Belt pilot project (exploring ship notification reports to

national single windows and thereby to customs authorities of all EU Member States, and to demonstrate that this information can be used to simplify customs formalities for goods carried aboard ships engaged in intra-EU trade).

• - Pilot projects with third countries

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What is it for?

• - Already all functions or user communities are benefitting from the integrated maritime system and services

• - EMSA is tasked to make the necessary technical solutions

• - Based on legislative requirements and requests for information needed

• - cooperation with other EU agencies involved• - cost efficient way of using and building on the

existing systems and platforms

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Integrated Maritime Surveillance!

• With on-going technological developments and the implementation of the Single Windows, the role of the system has been brought to a completely different level. While maritime vessel monitoring for safety purposes was the starting point, the future rests with an interconnected system that will work in a harmonized manner to facilitate not only safety but also maritime transport and traffic; the system is enabling enhanced operational situational awareness, providing information sharing, cross-border and cross-sector.

• Integrated Maritime Surveillance!

EMSA Maritime Support Services

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• IT & operational Helpdesk for EU maritime applications

• Application monitoring & incident management

• Data quality checks

• SPOC for requesting EMSA pollution response services

• 24/7 servicesContact Details:

Tel: +351 211 209 415

Fax: +351 211 209 480

Email: MaritimeSupportServices@emsa.europa.eu

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Further Information DG MOVE homepage

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/maritime/digital-services

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Recent ship position

Closest ships•Distance•Estimated time of arrival

Old ship position(grayed out)

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