New Directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations – Jun 28, 2013

On 28 June 2013, the European Union published a new Directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations in its Official Journal. 

The objective of this Directive is to reduce as far as possible the occurrence of major accidents relating to offshore oil and gas operations and to limit their consequences, thus increasing the protection of the marine environment and coastal economies against pollution, establishing minimum conditions for safe offshore exploration and exploitation of oil and gas and limiting possible disruptions to Union indigenous energy production, and to improve the response mechanisms in case of an accident.

The full text of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety of offshore oil and gas operation is available online.