Wohrer international instruments and bodies involved

Session 2 Interna-onal instruments and bodies involved Claude Wohrer Secretariat General for the sea (Prime Minister) claude.wohrer@pm.gouv.fr

IMO and BC « rela-onship » • • • • •

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IMO : July 2006 : MEPC 55 Marine Environment Protec-on CommiJee BC : November 2006 COP 8 Eighth Mee-ng of the Conference of the Par-es, Nairobi, Kenya IMO : MEPC 56 (July 2007), MEPC 57(March 2008), MEPC 58(October 2008) , MEPC 59 (July 2009) , MEPC 60 (March 2010) September 2007 : Open-­‐ended Working Group (OEWG 6) ; June 2008 : COP 9 Bali, Indonesia May 2009 : Interna.onal conference on the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships: Head of the french delega-on and Vice Chairman of the DraYing CommiJee MEPC 61(Sept 2010 ), MEPC 62 (July 2011 ), MEPC 63 (March 2012), MEPC 64 (Oct. 2012) : Chairperson of working group on ship recycling May 2010 : OEWG7 Chairperson of contact group on the Environmentally sound management of ship dismantling October 2011 : COP 10 Cartagena, Colombia Chairperson of contact group on the Environmentally sound management of ship dismantling

WASTE BASEL

BAN

SHIP

Anywhere (provided that …)

OECD

HKC

Anywhere (provided that…)

What about EU ?

WASTE

EC 1013/2006

OECD

SHIP

New regula.on ?

Anywhere (provided that…) ?????

Where is the « bad guy » (if any) ?

Recycling states Flag states Ship owners , Ship builders Ship recycling compagny Cashbuyers NGO …….

Chairperson

Find and develop common interests BC-­‐10/17: Environmentally sound dismantling of ships The Conference of the Par.es, Recalling its decision IX/30, I Hong Kong Interna.onal Conven.on for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships • 1. Notes that, while some par.es believe that the Hong Kong Interna-onal Conven-on for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships provides an equivalent level of control and enforcement to that established under the Basel Conven-on on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, some par.es do not believe this to be the case; • 2. Encourages par.es to ra.fy the Hong Kong Conven.on to enable its early entry into force; • 3. Acknowledges that the Basel Conven.on should con.nue to assist countries to apply the Basel Conven-on as it relates to ships; • • • • •

Find and develop common interests Facts and ques-ons • In 2009, more than 90% of EU end of life ships avoided the provisions of the EU Waste Shipment Regula-on (Basel + BAN) : could the new draY EU regula-on be the right answer ?

• Can we expect significant changes in the shipbuilding industry and in some recycling facili-es without an interna-onal instrument ?

• In 2009, adop-on of the Hong Kong Conven-on ..

No ra-fica-on so far. How can it be ?

Where are we now ? why ?