On Friday 25 October, the EU Council adopted its position on the proposal to amend the European Regulation imposing a monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) mechanism for maritime transport emissions (amendment of EU Regulation 2015/757) to align it partially with the global system for collecting data on ship fuel oil consumption adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in 2016.
The agreement reached by the national ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) means that the EU...