Shipping and carbon: keeping pace with new rules

Paul Sheridan, partner, and Valentina Keys, at CMS, take a look at the UK approach to EU MRV Regulation and IMO DCS

As part of the European ship carbon reporting system governed by Regulation (EU) 2015/757 (the EU MRV Regulation) shipping companies had until 30 April 2019 to submit their ship emissions reports for relevant ships for the compliance year 1 January to 31 December 2018.