Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2014
Delivering a “single window”
REPORTING SYSTEMS As part of its drive to streamline and standardise reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of its member states, the European Union (EU) has introduced wide-ranging legislation. EU Directive 2010/65/EU, commonly known as the Reporting Formalities Directive, mandates that member states must adopt a “single-window” reporting system by June 1st 2015 at the latest. In the following, Dr Takis Katsoulakos, R&D director at Inlecom Systems, provides an overview of current reporting requirements and outlines the issues and challenges that must be overcome to introduce the system.