European Maritime Safety Agency - Mission

Mission

EMSA has the following mission:

  • assist the Commission in preparing EU legislation in the field of maritime safety and prevention of pollution by ships
  • assist the Commission in the effective implementation of EU legislation on maritime safety and maritime security, in particular by monitoring the overall functioning of the EU port State control regime,
  • organise training activities, develop technical solutions and provide technical assistance related to the implementation of EU legislation
  • help develop a common methodology for investigating maritime accidents
  • provide data on maritime safety and on pollution by ships and help improve the identification and pursuit of ships making unlawful discharges

In doing so, EMSA closely cooperates with the Member States' maritime services.

Read more about this topic:  European Maritime Safety Agency

Famous quotes containing the word mission:

    I cannot be a materialist—but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery—such suffering, such dreadful suffering—and shall the short years of Christ’s mission atone for it all?
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    The mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it.
    Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)