The Ship Recycling (Facilities and Requirements for Hazardous Materials on Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The Ship Recycling (Facilities and Requirements for Hazardous Materials on Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Draft Affirmative
Laid on: 29 November 2018 

Ship recycling is the process by which a ship is dismantled and its constituent parts disposed of in a manner which is protective both of human health and of the environment. Regulation (EU) 1257/2013 on ship re cycling (“the EU Regulation”) provides the basis for improving environmental and safety standards for the recycling of EU flagged ships, and to give ship owners more choice of sustainable ship recycling facilities in which to recycle end-of-life ships.  

The draft regulations will ensure that the legal framework relating to ship recycling –  which applies from 31 December 2018 – remains legally operable when the UK withdraws from the EU on 29 March 2019.  If these changes are not made, the legislation will not be operable after EU withdrawal. There would be no effective system in place to apply the current regime to UK flagged ships after we exit the EU, as they would no longer appear on the ship register of an EU Member State. The draft regulations also address a number of inoperabilities arising from EU Exit which would hinder the operation of the UK ship recycling regime.  

Amongst the existing legislation to which this SI makes amendments are:

• The Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) (S.R 2003/492); and
• The Ship Recycling Facilities Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/229) 

This instrument applies to waste management which is a transferred matter for Northern Ireland under the Northern Ireland Act 1998.

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