The representatives of Jordan and Morocco (SAFEMED V), Georgia and Ukraine (BCSEA II) and Albania and Montenegro (IPA III) attended the 22^nd^ MAREΣ Expert Working Group meeting together with the representatives of the EU Members States participating to MAREΣ, the SafeSeaNet Regional Server for the Mediterranean and Black Sea. The regional server, managed by the Italian Coast Guard, among ...
The beneficiaries of the ENP and IPA projects participated for the second time in the EMSA Academy Common Core Curriculum (CCC) for Maritime Auditors which culminated in a three-day in-person session on 3-5 February. The curriculum course commenced on 15 September 2025 and was delivered in a blended mode to a combined audience of representatives from the EU Member States and the projects’ ...
MARPOL Annex VI was recently added to the list of relevant Instruments of the MEDMOU. To support the full and harmonised inspection of the Annex VI related aspects, a specialised training on MARPOL Annex VI was organised for the MEDMOU Members States. The training, delivered from 13 October to 11 December 2026, consisted of three asynchronous phases covered the legal and technical requirements, ...
The EMSA’s Academy part-time course for Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) inspectors commenced on 3 November and ended on 23 November 2025. The course was designed to provide the basic knowledge on the Maritime Labour Convention and the steps to be undertaken to ensure compliance. The latest amendments to MLC 2006 as well as an understanding of the basis for flag and port State inspections were ...
The beneficiaries of the SAFEMED V (10), BCSEA II (5) and IPA (4) projects participated in the EMSA Academy Common Core Curriculum (CCC) course for Flag State Inspectors (Intermediate Level). The online component of the course was delivered from 23 June to 5 October 2025 and was followed by a 3-day in-person session at EMSA premises in Lisbon from 14 to 16 October. In total, 19 participants from ...
SAFEMED V project continues to support the Mediterranean Memorandum of Understanding (Med MoU) on Port State Control. From 21 to 23 October the 27th Committee meeting of the Med MoU took place in Kalkara (Malta) where EMSA participated with two representatives. Several key decisions to advance the harmonization of the PSC activities in the Mediterranean were adopted. Among the most significant, ...
The EU financed projects SAFEMED V, BCSEA II and IPA III implemented by EMSA have been the vehicle through which the MAR-ICE service provided to the EU MSs has been extended to the Projects’ beneficiaries. The Agency, together with the Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution (Cedre, France) has undertaken the organisation of a training session which ...
As part of the Common Core Curriculum for Safety Investigators (2025), conducted by the EMSA Training Academy, an in-person session took place between 22 and 25 September 2025 at the premises of the European Maritime Safety Agency. The in-person session aimed to cover the last Learning Outcomes linked to the Operational Units of the curriculum. It focused on providing the participants with ...
In the context of EU financed project BCSEA II, EMSA has undertaken the organisation of an oil pollution response exercise which took place from 15 to 17 September 2015 in Türkiye. Participants from the BCSEA II, SAFEMED V and IPA project implemented by the Agency were invited to attend. The 3-day oil pollution response exercise aimed to familiarise participants with the theoretical and ...
SAFEMED V project continues to support the Mediterranean Memorandum of Understanding (Med MoU). On 18 and 19 June, EMSA hosted the 36^th^ Mediterranean MoU Management Advisory Board (MAB) which advises the Port State Control Committee on matters of a political and strategic nature. EMSA participated with two representatives which shared, among others, a proposal for MEDMOU Members to target ...