Class 1 (Chief Engineer) Engineering Management 📅 Jan 2021

Exam Question

The European Union (EU) Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation requires ship owners and operators to annually monitor, report and verify CO2 emissions for vessels larger than 5000 GT and which call at any EU port is already in force. Against this background

(a) Exlpain the salient differences between MRV mandated by EU and the Data Collection and reporting under MARPOL

(b) Draft a feet circular to the vessels under your management, describing the care and procedures to be practised by the vessels for the compliance of EU MRV regulations and IMO-Data Colection & Reporting respectively

Reference Answer

### (a) Salient Differences between EU MRV and IMO DCS
The European Union (EU) Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) regulation and the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Data Collection System (DCS) are both aimed at quantifying and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. However, they differ significantly in their scope, methodology, and transparency.
A surveyor-grade comparison is presented below:
| Feature | EU MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification) | IMO DCS (Data Collection System) under MARPOL Annex VI |

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