Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2895 of 19 December 2023 laying down the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the list of transnational public service contracts or transnational public service obligations referred to in Article 12(3-c) of that Directive
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2895 of 19 December 2023 laying down the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the list of transnational public service contracts or transnational public service obligations referred to in Article 12(3-c) of that Directive
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Member States shall consider the requirements set out in Article 12(3), first subparagraph, point (c), and Article 16, of Directive 2003/87/EC to be satisfied and shall take no action against shipping companies in respect of emissions released until 31 December 2030 from:
(a)
voyages performed by passenger ships, other than cruise passenger ships, and by ro-pax ships, between a port of an island as listed in Annex I to this Decision and a port under the jurisdiction of the same Member State, or from the activities, within a port, of such ships in relation to such voyages;
(b)
voyages performed by passenger or ro-pax ships in the framework of a transnational public service contract or a transnational public service obligation connecting two Member States, as listed in Annex II to this Decision, or from the activities, within a port, of such ships in relation to such voyages.
This Decision shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
It shall apply from 1 January 2024.
Supplementary provisions
List of islands and ports as referred to in Article 12(3-d), first subparagraph, of Directive 2003/87/EC
ANNEX II
List of transnational public service contracts or transnational public service obligations as referred to in Article 12(3-c) of Directive 2003/87/EC
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Public service contract for the establishment of a passenger maritime link between Cyprus and Greece connecting the ports of Piraeus (Greece), Larnaca (Cyprus) and Limassol (Cyprus).