{"id":75377,"date":"2016-10-25T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=709a312a5ee398945bd0f857a511e45c"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:04:00","slug":"statement-to-parliament-amendments-to-the-founding-regulation-establishing-the-european-maritime-safety-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75377","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: Amendments to the founding regulation establishing the European Maritime Safety Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government welcomes the efforts of the Commission to address the ongoing migration crisis, but has decided not to opt in to the JHA content in the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No. 1406\/2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency (<abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>The proposal \u2013 which has now been adopted \u2013 forms part of a wider package of measures by the Commission to ensure the protection of the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>\u2019s external borders.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has taken the view that the challenges which have arisen from the recent migratory crisis cannot be adequately dealt with by member states acting in an uncoordinated manner and that integrated border management should be a shared responsibility of a new European Border and Coast Guard into which national authorities with coastguard and border control responsibilities, the European Maritime Safety Agency (<abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr>) and European Fisheries Control Agency (<abbr title=\"European Fisheries Control Agency\">EFCA<\/abbr>) can provide additional resources and contribute to better, more effective co-ordination and co-operation.<\/p>\n<p>The core tasks of <abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr> currently deliver a high, uniform and effective level of maritime safety and prevention of pollution within the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>, achieved by ensuring a consistent application of <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> maritime law.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments to the <abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr> founding regulation will have the effect of immediately expanding <abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr>\u2019s role and responsibilities beyond its current core tasks of managing maritime pollution and safety. It will formally establish co-operation for the prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offences by enabling <abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr> to make available information with other national authorities with coastguard and border control responsibilities, the European Fisheries Control Agency (<abbr title=\"European Fisheries Control Agency\">EFCA<\/abbr>) and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which is currently accessible through ship reporting and other information exchange systems.<\/p>\n<p>Such co-operation is indirect (<abbr title=\"European Maritime Safety Agency\">EMSA<\/abbr> itself will have no role to play in the exchange or analysis of such information between the agencies), and there is little practical or operational benefit for the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> from this measure. The government maintains that the effect of the measure amounts to an obligation that falls within the scope of the JHA section of the treaties and is, therefore, subject to the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>\u2019s JHA opt-in. It is on that basis that the government has decided not to opt in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government decides not to opt-in to new European proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}