In a report published on Thursday 25 April, on the evaluation of the implementation of Directive 2005/65/EC on enhancing port security, the European Commission considers that, despite progress, States still need to make efforts to achieve the expected results.
This is the third report on this subject, after those presented in 2009 (see EUROPE 9825/27) and 2013 concerning this directive adopted in 2005 (see EUROPE 9083/40).
In the first evaluation, the Commission noted in particular that Member States had transposed the text late, leading to the opening of infringement proceedings and two judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2009. Several problems had been identified by the institution in the second report. And another judgment finding failure to fulfil obligations against Germany was delivered in this respect in 2017.
While the Commission acknowledges here that “significant improvement” has been made by States, “there is still a series of recurrent common issues” with regard to the correct implementation of the text. These include the definition of port boundaries for security purposes, the review of port security assessments and port security plans.
Link to the report: https://bit.ly/2GIuqDJ. (Original version in French by Lucas Tripoteau)