Regulation (EU) 2025/2434 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2025 on the European Maritime Safety Agency and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 (EMSA Regulation) restructures the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). Published in the Offcial Journal on 29 December 2025, it enters into force on the twentieth day after publication.
Although many of EMSA’s technical systems predate this reform, the EMSA Regulation gives a sharper legal basis for continuous maritime situational awareness, including a 24/7 centre whose outputs may support sanctions implementation (Article 8(4)(e)) and a stated focus on suspicious ship-to-ship transfers and Automatic Identification System (AIS) interference. Shipowners, charterers, traders, insurers and other maritime service providers may therefore see more structured information sharing, and more targeted questions around higher-risk movements and data anomalies.
