Call for Expressions of Interest to provide consultancy services for the implementation of the road map for a proposal for the possible designation of the Med SOx ECA – Apr 17, 2020

    Call for Expressions of Interest to provide consultancy services for the implementation of the road map for a proposal for the possible designation of the Med SOx ECA

    REMPEC, together with the Plan Bleu Regional Activity Centre (PB/RAC) and the Mediterranean Pollution Assessment and Control Programme (MED POL), as Lead Entities, issued an open call for interested consultants/experts in undertaking consultancy work related to the implementation of the road map for a proposal for the possible designation of the Mediterranean Sea, as a whole, as an Emission Control Area for Sulphur Oxides (Med SOx ECA) pursuant to MARPOL Annex VI, within the framework of the Barcelona Convention.

    To support the Lead Entities in carrying out their activities with respect to the implementation of the road map, interested consultants/experts are kindly invited to send their Expressions of Interest to take on one or more of the following five packages of work:

    • Package 1: Synopsis of the assessment and draft submission to the IMO (Lead Entity: REMPEC, in cooperation with MED POL and PB/RAC);
    • Package 2: Quantification of the impacts associated with deposition of PM2.5 and air toxics (Lead Entity: REMPEC, in cooperation with MED POL);
    • Package 3: Land-based emissions controls of SOx and PM in the Mediterranean coastal States (Lead Entity: MED POL, in cooperation with REMPEC);
    • Package 4: Additional economic impact evaluation (Lead Entity: PB/RAC, in cooperation with REMPEC); and
    • Package 5: Additional fuel supply and technology analyses (Lead Entity: REMPEC).

    The Call for Expressions of Interest is available here.

    Deadline for expressing interests: eleven (11) p.m. (Malta local time or UTC/GMT +2 hours) on Friday, 24 April 2020.