The Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) confirmed that waste from ships is not subject to the requirements of EU law on transfer of waste. The legal case arose from the fire on board the MSC Flaminia in 2012.
As the North P&I Club says, in this case owners wanted to send the vessel to a ship yard in Romania for immediate clean-up and repair, but the German environmental authorities refused permission, claiming that the ship contained debris, sludge and fire-fighting water.
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https://safety4sea.com/ships-waste-not-subject-to-eu-law-on-transfer-of-waste/