EU ETS Administering Authority for Shipping Companies
How Article 3gf of Directive 2003/87/EC attributes each shipping company to one Member State, and the Commission lists in Decisions 2024/411 and 2025/2452.
The administering authority of a shipping company under the EU ETS is the Member State that approves its monitoring plan, receives its verified emissions data and enforces surrender. Article 3gf(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC attributes a company to the Member State where it is registered; failing that, to the Member State with the greatest estimated number of in-scope port calls in the preceding four monitoring years; failing that, to the Member State of its first in-scope voyage.
The Commission list is Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/411 of 30 January 2024, whose Annex was replaced by Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2452 from 1 January 2026. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2599 sets the administration rules, including the shipowner’s mandate to a manager or bareboat charterer and the use of THETIS-MRV and SafeSeaNet data.
The full article will cover the attribution tests, list updates, changes of administering authority and the mandate document. See EU ETS maritime scope and phase-in .