1. Where a ship has a compliance surplus for the reporting period, following a request from the company to bank the compliance surplus, the verifier shall assess the information on the compliance surplus and verify if it is in accordance with Articles 19, 20 and 21 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1805, and the calculations referred in Article 26 of this Regulation. Following an assessment of a request as compliant, the verifier shall approve the request for banking the compliance surplus.
2. Where a compliance surplus results from the total pool compliance balance, the verifier shall assess the calculations and the information related to the pooling of compliance, before approving the banking of the compliance surplus.
3. Where the ship has, for the reporting period, a compliance deficit, following a request from the company to borrow an advance compliance surplus of the corresponding amount from the following reporting period, the verifier shall assess the information on the compliance deficit and verifythat the advance compliance surplus multiplied by 1.1 is subtracted from the same ship’s compliance balance in the following reporting period in accordance with Article 20(2) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1805. Where the conditions set out in Article 20(2) points (a) and (b) are exceeded, the verifier shall not approve borrowing of the advance compliance surplus.
1. Companies shall notify in the FuelEU database: (i) the intention of including the ship’s compliance balance in a pool; and (ii) the allocation of the total compliance balance of the pool to each individual ship. Where the ships participating in the pool are controlled by two or more companies the notification shall be accepted by all the companies concerned in the FuelEU database. The notification should include the following: (i) the allocation of the total compliance balance of the pool to its ships; (ii) the choice of the verifier selected for verifying the allocation of the total compliance balance of the pool to each individual ship; and (iii) a declaration that the ships participating in the pool are not allocated to other pools.
2. The verifier selected for verifying the allocation of the total compliance balance of the pool to each individual ship shall verify that the allocation of the pooled balance to each ship are in accordance with Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1805, and the calculations referred in Article 26 of this Regulation. The pool shall be valid only where it complies with Article 21(4) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1805.
3. Where one of the conditions referred to in Article 21(4) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1805 are not fulfilled, the verifier selected for verifying the allocation of the total compliance balance of the pool to each individual ship shall not approve the request for pooling. The verifier shall make a statement of the non-conformities detected.
