This document provides an exhaustive list of greening legislations impacting the operations of ports and terminals in Europe. To obtain the data from this catalogue, an initial research was conducted on the EU Parliament platform named Legislative Train Schedule. The aim of this website is to visually represent the legislations that constitute the work programme of the EU institutions. By using railway metaphors such as tracks, trains, and carriages, the website allows any types of users, including members, Parliament staff, and a broader audience, to track the progress of legislative files during the current and past terms of the European Parliament. As the information provided on the Legislative Train Schedule is comprehensive and updated monthly, this website proved to be a reliable source that served as a solid foundation for our research. To complete and verify the website’s information, we also resorted to newspapers and the official websites of the European Parliament, the Commission or the Council of the EU. We have also added new relevant EU legislations when they were mentioned in greening guidelines set out for example by the maritime sector.
The structure of our research strategy was shaped by the six political priorities set by the President of the Commission for the 2019-2024 mandate which came useful to set our focus on two dimensions: First, transportation and environment, and secondly freight, logistics, and ports an dterminal-related legislations. Within those political priorities lies the European Green Deal, comprising a set of legislation pieces aimed to enable Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent by becoming a modern, resource-efficient economy.
Legislations are often organised in package, which are informal grouping of legislative pieces designed as a set to maintain coherence between them. To provide an overview of European legislations that are relevant for BSC, we structured this catalogue using the said packages and elaborated on them for the reader to understand the macro-objectives of the pieces of legislations laid down in them.