The Union is facing new geopolitical challenges, resulting in additional threats to maritime safety and the marine environment. The Agency’s existing capacities for providing maritime situational awareness, including surveillance of ships’ movements, should support coastal Member States through, inter alia, the monitoring and notification of suspicious ship-to-ship transfers and incidents of illegally interfering with, switching off or otherwise disabling of the shipborne automatic identification system (AIS), and facilitating the exchange of information based on the Union maritime information and exchange system (SafeSeaNet), established under Directive 2002/59/EC, which enables the receipt, storage, retrieval and exchange of information for the purposes of maritime safety, port and maritime security, marine environment protection and the efficiency of maritime traffic and maritime transport. This would support coastal Member States to address the challenges posed by the dark fleet or shadow fleet, as defined in IMO Assembly Resolution A.1192(33) adopted on 6 December 2023.
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