Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2895 of 19 December 2023 laying down the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the list of transnational public service contracts or transnational public service obligations referred to in Article 12(3-c) of that Directive

Member States shall consider the requirements set out in Article 12(3), first subparagraph, point (c), and Article 16, of Directive 2003/87/EC to be satisfied and shall take no action against shipping companies in respect of emissions released until 31 December 2030 from: (a) voyages performed by passenger ships, other than cruise passenger ships, and by ro-pax ships, between a port of an island as listed in Annex I to this Decision and a port under the jurisdiction of the same Member State, or from the activities, within a port, of such ships in relation to such voyages; (b) voyages performed by passenger or ro-pax ships in the framework of a transnational public service contract or a transnational public service obligation connecting two Member States, as listed in Annex II to this Decision, or from the activities, within a port, of such ships in relation to such voyages.

This Decision shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2024.