Regulation (EU) 2023/1805

means a Member State determined by applying Article 3gf(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC in relation to a company within the meaning of this Regulation, without prejudice to the choice of the competent authorities in charge within the relevant Member State;

means biofuels as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (33), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

means biogas as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (28), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

means the shipowner or any other organisation or person such as the manager or the bareboat charterer, which has assumed the responsibility for the operation of the ship from the shipowner and has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed by the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention;

means the measure of a ship’s over- or under-compliance with regard to the limits for the yearly average GHG intensity of the energy used on board by a ship or the RFNBO subtarget, which is calculated in accordance with Part A of Annex IV;

means a compliance balance with a negative value;

means a compliance balance with a positive value;

means a ship designed exclusively for the carriage of containers in holds and on deck;

means a passenger ship that has no cargo deck and is designed exclusively for commercial transportation of passengers in overnight accommodation on a sea voyage;

means the demand for electricity of a ship at berth for meeting all energy needs based on electricity on board;

means the average emission rate of a GHG relative to the activity data of a source stream, assuming complete oxidation for combustion and complete conversion for all other chemical reactions;

means the amount of energy, expressed in mega joules (MJ), used by a ship for propulsion and for the operation of any onboard equipment, at sea or at berth;

means the highest value, expressed in kilowatts, of the total demand for electricity of a ship at berth, including hotel and cargo handling workloads;

means food and feed crops as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (40), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

means a document specific to a ship, issued to a company by a verifier, which confirms that that ship has complied with this Regulation for a specific reporting period;

(GT) means gross tonnage as defined in Article 3, point (e), of Regulation (EU) 2015/757;

means the notation assigned to the ship by the competent national authorities of the flag state or an organisation recognised by that state, showing that the ship has been designed for navigation in sea-ice conditions;

means the demarcation at any given time between the open sea and sea ice of any kind, whether fast or drifting, as set out in paragraph 4.4.8 of the World Meteorological Organisation Sea-Ice Nomenclature, March 2014;

means the most carbon-intensive production pathway used for any given fuel;

means managing body of the port as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2017/352;

means a port call during which the ship does not comply with the requirement set out in Article 6(1), and to which none of the exceptions provided for in Article 6(5) apply;

(OPS) means the system to supply electricity to ships at berth, at low or high voltage, alternate or direct current, including ship-side and port-side installations, when feeding directly the ship main distribution switchboard for powering hotel and service workloads or charging secondary batteries;

means a territory referred to in Article 349 TFEU;

means a passenger ship as defined in Article 2, point (i), of Directive (EU) 2016/802 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means a port where ships stop to load or unload cargo or to embark or disembark passengers with the exclusion of stops for the sole purposes of refuelling, obtaining supplies, relieving the crew, going into dry-dock or making repairs to the ship, its equipment or both;

means recycled carbon fuels as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

(RFNBO) means renewable fuels of non-biological origin as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (36), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

means a period from 1 January to 31 December of the year during which information referred to in this Regulation is monitored and recorded, where data for voyages starting and ending in two different calendar years is accounted under the calendar year concerned;

means the sailing by an ice-class ship in a sea area within the ice edge;

means a ship at berth which is not moored at the quayside;

means ship at berth as defined in Article 3, point (n), of Regulation (EU) 2015/757;

means renewable energy generated on board or electricity supplied from OPS;

means the sum of the compliance balances of all ships included in the pool;

means the calendar year directly following the reporting period.

means a legal entity carrying out verification activities, which is accredited by a national accreditation body pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 and this Regulation;

means voyage as defined in Article 3, point (c), of Regulation (EU) 2015/757;

means a method for calculating emissions that takes into account the GHG impact of energy production, transport, distribution and use on board, including during combustion;

means propulsion, whether partial or full, of a ship by wind energy harnessed by means of wind-assistance propulsion systems such as, inter alia, rotor sails, kites, hard or rigid sails, soft sails, suction wings or turbines;

means a technology that, when used to provide energy, does not result in the release of the following greenhouse gases and air pollutants into the atmosphere by ships: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM);