- administering State
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;
- biofuels
means biofuels as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (33), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;
- biogas
means biogas as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (28), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;
- company
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;
- compliance balance
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;
- compliance deficit
means a compliance balance with a negative value;
- compliance surplus
means a compliance balance with a positive value;
- containership
means a ship designed exclusively for the carriage of containers in holds and on deck;
- cruise passenger ship
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;
- electrical power demand at berth
means the demand for electricity of a ship at berth for meeting all energy needs based on electricity on board;
- emission factor
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;
- energy used on board
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;
- established total electrical power demand of the ship 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;
- food and feed crops
means food and feed crops as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (40), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;
- FuelEU document of compliance
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;
- gross tonnage
(GT) means gross tonnage as defined in Article 3, point (e), of Regulation (EU) 2015/757;
- ice class
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;
- ice edge
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;
- least favourable pathway
means the most carbon-intensive production pathway used for any given fuel;
- managing body of the port
means managing body of the port as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2017/352;
- non-compliant port call
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;
- on-shore power supply
(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;
- outermost region
means a territory referred to in Article 349 TFEU;
- passenger ship
means a passenger ship as defined in Article 2, point (i), of Directive (EU) 2016/802 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- port of call
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;
- recycled carbon fuels
means recycled carbon fuels as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;
- renewable fuels of non-biological origin
(RFNBO) means renewable fuels of non-biological origin as defined in Article 2, second paragraph, point (36), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;
- reporting period
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;
- sailing in ice conditions
means the sailing by an ice-class ship in a sea area within the ice edge;
- ship at anchorage
means a ship at berth which is not moored at the quayside;
- ship at berth
means ship at berth as defined in Article 3, point (n), of Regulation (EU) 2015/757;
- substitute sources of energy
means renewable energy generated on board or electricity supplied from OPS;
- total pool compliance balance
means the sum of the compliance balances of all ships included in the pool;
- verification period
means the calendar year directly following the reporting period.
- verifier
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;
- voyage
means voyage as defined in Article 3, point (c), of Regulation (EU) 2015/757;
- well-to-wake
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;
- wind-assisted propulsion
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;
- zero-emission technology
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);