This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website
European maritime single window environment
European maritime single window environment
European maritime single window environment
Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 establishing a European maritime single window environment
The EMSWe is the legal and technical framework for the electronic transmission of information about reporting obligations for ships calling at EU ports. It is a network of maritime national single windows* with harmonised reporting interfaces and includes data exchanges using SafeSeaNet and other systems, along with services for:
Establishing the common EMSWe dataset
The regulation maintains the existing maritime national single window in each EU Member State as the basis for a technologically neutral and interoperable EMSWe.
The European Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts to establish a new common EMSWe dataset, incorporating and adapting the most relevant requirements in existing national or EU legislation. Member States must notify the Commission of any reporting obligations and requirements stemming from national legislation and any data elements they wish to be included in the EMSWe dataset.
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/205 supplements Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 by creating a new Annex I, which brings together all information that a ship must provide when it calls at a port. This allows for more efficient sharing and reuse of data, reduces the administrative burden for declarants and improves the exchange of data between national authorities. The delegated regulation also sets out the EMSWe dataset provided for under Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 in a new Annex II. This takes into account existing mandatory reporting set out in EU, international and national legislation.
Harmonised reporting interfaces
The Commission will adopt implementing acts laying down the functional and technical specifications for the harmonised reporting interface module for the maritime national single windows, aiming for them to be interoperable with different user technologies and reporting systems.
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/204 lays down technical specifications, standards and procedures for the EMSWe.
Once-only principle
The Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic provides that public authorities must in all cases require only essential reporting information and keep the number of items to a minimum. Under the regulation, Member States must ensure that ship operators are asked to provide any required information only once per port call, and that relevant supplied data are retained for reuse.
Common services
As components of the EMSWe, the Commission establishes:
The Commission adopts and revises on a yearly basis, following appropriate consultations of Member States’ experts, a multiannual implementation plan.
Each Member State designates a competent national authority with a legal mandate to act as a national coordinator for the EMSWe.
The regulation does not affect the exchange of information between customs authorities, or between customs authorities and businesses, using the electronic data-processing techniques referred to in Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 on the Union Customs Code (see summary).
Repeal
Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 repeals Directive 2010/65/EU (see summary) as of 15 August 2025.
It applies from 15 August 2025.
For further information, see:
Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment and repealing Directive 2010/65/EU (OJ L 198, 25.7.2019, pp. 64–87).
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/205 of 7 November 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of the European Maritime Single Window environment data set and amending its Annex (OJ L 33, 3.2.2023, pp. 24–230).
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/204 of 28 October 2022 laying down technical specifications, standards and procedures for the European Maritime Single Window environment pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 33, 3.2.2023, pp. 1–23).
Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, pp. 73–114).
Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (recast) (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, pp. 1–101).
Successive amendments to Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 have been incorporated into the original text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.
Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC (OJ L 283, 29.10.2010, pp. 1–10).
See consolidated version.
last update 21.04.2023