Support study for the Evaluation of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013 on ship recycling : final report

The support study for the evaluation of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013 on ship recycling (SRR) was performed in the period December 2022-November 2023. It was commissioned by DG Environment of the European Commission and implemented by a consortium that includes Ecorys, Ramboll, and Grimaldi. The study is a backward-looking assessment, which covers the classical Better Regulation Guidelines criteria and their corresponding evaluation questions: Effectiveness; Efficiency; Relevance; Coherence; and EU added value. The study results show that the SRR has contributed to all its stated objectives, but its effectiveness is hampered by significant challenges, such as circumvention of the obligation to recycle end-of-life vessels in EU-listed yards because of the re-flagging of vessels, as well as, to a lesser extent, the insufficient compliance with the requirements for the Inventories of hazardous materials (IHM).