Notice of the Maritime Safety Administration of the People's Republic of China on printing and distributing the Data on Energy Consumption and Carbon Intensity of Ships
Relevant shipping enterprises and maritime administrations directly under them:
In order to further improve the collection of ship energy consumption data and the management of carbon intensity, our bureau has formulated the Measures for the Management of Ship Energy Consumption Data and Carbon Intensity, which are hereby distributed to you. Please implement them carefully.
At the same time, the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration is authorized to be responsible for the statistics, analysis and verification of national ship energy consumption data, as well as the implementation of the carbon intensity management of Chinese international sailing ships.
Maritime Safety Administration of the People's Republic of China
November 22, 2022
(This is voluntarily disclosed)
Measures for the management of energy consumption data and carbon intensity of ships
Chapter I General provisions
Article 1 These Measures are formulated in accordance with the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Marine Environmental Pollution from Ships and Their Related Operations and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, to which China has concluded and acceded, for the purpose of the collection of energy consumption data from Ships and the administration of carbon intensity.
Article 2 These Measures shall apply to ships of Chinese nationality with a gross tonnage of 400 tons or more and ships of foreign nationality entering and leaving Chinese ports.
These Measures are not applicable to military vessels, fishing vessels and sports vessels.
Article 3 The Maritime Safety Administration of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the China Maritime Safety Administration) shall be uniformly responsible for the administration of energy consumption data of vessels and the administration of the carbon intensity of vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally.
Maritime administrative organs at all levels and local competent transport departments shall, in accordance with their specific functions and duties, be responsible for the collection, reporting, administration, supervision and inspection of vessels' energy consumption data under their respective jurisdictions.
Maritime administrations at various levels shall be specifically responsible for the supervision and inspection of the carbon intensity of ships under their respective jurisdictions.
The Maritime Safety Administration directly under the authority of the Maritime Safety Administration of China (hereinafter referred to as the directly authorized Maritime Safety Administration) is specifically responsible for the statistics, analysis and verification of national vessel energy consumption data, and for the implementation of the carbon intensity management of Chinese international sailing vessels.
Ship inspection institutions authorized by the China Maritime Safety Administration (hereinafter referred to as ship inspection institutions) are specifically responsible for the collection and verification of energy efficiency index data of Chinese international sailing vessels.
Chapter II Data collection and reporting
Article 4 Vessels shall collect and report the data of vessel energy consumption in accordance with these Measures and Technical Requirements for Vessel Energy Consumption Data Collection and Report (JT/T 1340).
Article 5 Vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally and vessels of foreign nationality entering or leaving Chinese ports shall record energy consumption data of vessels in ship logs or other relevant documents in accordance with the requirements of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan.
Maritime vessels and inland waterway vessels of Chinese nationality on domestic voyages shall record the energy consumption data of vessels on a daily basis or for each voyage, which may be recorded electronically or in paper form. See the attachment for the record format.
The energy consumption data recorded by ships shall be kept for at least 2 years in case of inspection by the maritime administrative authorities.
Article 6 A domestic sea-going vessel of Chinese nationality shall report the energy consumption data of the last voyage to the maritime administrative authority or the local competent transport department when making a port departure report.
A monthly report can be used for a domestic seagoing vessel of Chinese nationality under one of the following circumstances:
(1) Vessels sailing within a fixed water area and the sailing time of a single voyage is not more than 4 hours;
(2) Ships sailing on fixed routes with a voyage duration of not more than 24 hours per voyage.
Chinese domestic sailing vessels that use monthly reports shall, before the 10th day of each month, report the aggregate data of the previous natural month to the maritime administrative authority or the local competent transport department of the place where the port is attached.
Inland waterway vessels shall, before April 1 of each year, report to the maritime administrative authorities of the port where the vessels have registered or to the local competent transport authorities the summary data on the energy consumption of vessels for the previous calendar year.
Article 7 Vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally and vessels of foreign nationality shall report the energy consumption data of vessels of the previous voyage to the maritime administrative authority when they go through the formalities for departure from the port or report for departure from the port.
Vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally shall report the energy consumption data of the previous voyage to the maritime administration directly under the authority authorized before departing from overseas ports.
Article 8 Vessels shall report the energy consumption data of vessels as required by these Measures through the relevant maritime information platform or system (hereinafter referred to as the information platform) determined by the China Maritime Safety Administration. If the report cannot be made due to special circumstances, the ship shall complete the supplementary report of the ship's energy consumption data within 5 working days after the reporting conditions are met.
Article 9 Vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally shall report the data of ship energy efficiency index to the ship survey institution in accordance with the requirements of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.
The ship inspection institution shall verify the data of the ship energy efficiency index and submit the verified data to the authorized maritime administration directly under it within the prescribed time.
Article 10 Ships shall truthfully report the data of energy consumption and energy efficiency index of ships, and be responsible for the completeness, authenticity and accuracy of the data.
The ship inspection institution shall be responsible for the completeness, authenticity and accuracy of the verified ship energy efficiency index data.
Chapter III Carbon Intensity Management of Chinese international sailing ships
Article 11 Vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally shall meet the relevant requirements of the ship energy efficiency index in the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, and obtain the International Energy Efficiency Certificate.
Article 12 Vessels of Chinese nationality sailing internationally shall prepare a Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan in accordance with relevant regulations, submit it to the authorized maritime administration directly under the administration for verification, and keep the verified Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan on the vessel.
If the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan has passed the verification, the authorized maritime administration directly under the Maritime Administration shall issue the Confirmation of the Compliance of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan to the Chinese international sailing vessels of 5000 gross tons or above. The specific format and content of the Confirmation of Compliance of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan shall be determined according to the requirements and management needs of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.
The owner, operator or manager shall ensure the effective implementation of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan.
Article 13 Where the owner, operator or manager of an international sailing vessel of Chinese origin with a gross tonnage of 5,000 or more has been changed, or major alterations have taken place, or where the authorized maritime administration directly under the Maritime Administration finds that the implementation of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan fails to meet the requirements, The Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan shall be reformulated as required and submitted to the authorized direct maritime administration for verification. If it passes the verification, the authorized direct maritime administration shall issue a new Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan Compliance Confirmation Letter.
Article 14 International sailing vessels of Chinese origin with 5000 gross tons or above shall, according to the requirements, report the annual energy consumption data of vessels of the previous calendar year and relevant supporting documents to the authorized direct maritime administrations before March 31 of each year, and keep the annual energy consumption report data of vessels and the original data until the end of the next year.
Ships applicable to Article 28 of Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships shall also report the annual operational carbon intensity index achieved in the previous calendar year in accordance with the requirements of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and relevant supporting documents.
Article 15 The authorized maritime administration directly under the Maritime Administration shall verify the data of the annual energy consumption report of ships received, and in accordance with the requirements of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, verify the annual operating carbon intensity index achieved by the ships and assess the annual operating carbon intensity grade.
The annual carbon intensity level of ship operation is divided into A, B, C, D and E, corresponding to the excellent, good, qualified, poor and extremely poor energy efficiency level of ship operation.
Article 16 Where a ship's energy consumption report and operational carbon intensity rating meet the requirements of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and a Statement of Compliance with Fuel Consumption Report and Operational Carbon Intensity Rating is required by a maritime administrative agency, the authorized maritime administration directly under the Maritime Administration shall provide it.
The specific format and content of the Declaration of Conformity of Fuel Consumption Report and Operational Carbon Intensity Rating are determined according to the requirements and management requirements of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, and shall be retained on board for 5 years.
Article 17 If the assessment result of the carbon intensity of a ship's annual operation is Class E or Class D for three consecutive years, a rectification action plan shall be immediately formulated and incorporated into the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan, and the revised Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan shall be submitted to the authorized Maritime Administration directly under the administration for verification before April 30 of the same year.
If the revised Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan passes the verification, the authorized maritime Administration directly under the administration will issue the Fuel Consumption Report and Operational Carbon Intensity Rating Compliance Statement and the new Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan Compliance Confirmation Letter to the ship.
Article 18 Where an international sailing vessel of Chinese nationality with a gross tonnage of 5,000 or more converts to a foreign nationality or changes its owner, operator or manager, it shall, within one month after the completion of the change, report to the authorized maritime administrations directly under it the data on energy consumption of the previous calendar year and the data on energy consumption of the year before the completion of the change. The authorized direct maritime administration shall verify the reported data and issue the corresponding "Fuel Consumption Report and Operational Carbon Intensity Rating Compliance Statement" to the vessels that meet the requirements.
If the ship mentioned in the preceding paragraph has submitted the relevant data of the previous year in accordance with Article 14 of these Measures, it may not submit the data again.
Article 19 For ships with annual carbon intensity rating of A or B in operation, maritime administrative authorities at all levels may appropriately reduce the frequency of supervision and inspection of carbon intensity.
Chapter IV Supervision and Administration
Article 20 Maritime administrative organs at various levels and local competent transport departments shall, in accordance with the guidelines for supervision and administration formulated by the China Maritime Safety Administration, carry out supervision and inspection in accordance with their duties.
Where the authorized maritime administration directly under the Maritime Administration finds any problem during the verification of the annual energy consumption data of a Chinese international sailing vessel, it shall transfer the problem to the maritime administrative authorities at the place where the vessel's port of registration is located for inspection in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and the requirements of these Measures.
The authorized maritime administration directly under the Administration shall, within 6 months after the issuance of the Declaration of Compliance with the Fuel Consumption Report and Operational Carbon Intensity Rating, conduct a spot check and review on the implementation of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan in accordance with the supervision and management guidelines formulated by the China Maritime Administration.
Article 21 Where a maritime administrative authority finds that a vessel has failed to report the data of vessel energy consumption as required, it shall deal with the matter in accordance with the Provisions of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Marine Environment Pollution by Vessels and Their Related Operations and the requirements of these Measures.
Where the maritime administrative authority and the local competent transport department find errors in the report of the energy consumption data of vessels, they shall urge the vessels to submit the report again within 3 working days from the date of receiving the notification.
Chapter V Supplementary Provisions
Article 22 The term "carbon intensity management of ships" as mentioned in these Measures refers to the relevant management work carried out to control the greenhouse gas emission intensity of ships, including the energy efficiency management of ships and the carbon intensity management of operations.
Article 23 These Measures shall come into force as of December 22, 2022 and shall be valid for five years.
As of the date of the implementation of these Measures, Measures for the Administration of the Maritime Safety Administration of the People's Republic of China on the Collection of Ship Energy Consumption Data (Haizhuang [2018] No.476) shall be repealed at the same time.
Copy to: Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Transportation Department (bureau, committee), China Classification Society.
Issued by the Office of the Maritime Administration of the People's Republic of China on November 22, 2022
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