1. European Maritime Law Organisation Malta Maritime Law Association JOINT EMLO AND MMLA SEMINAR VALLETTA, MALTA, 8 MAY 2014 Philip Wareham Hill Dickinson LLP

2. What keeps you awake at night?
Two issues for ports:
New rules for port concessions
Ports Services Regulation

3. Issues for Ports

4. Procurement and concessions
New landscape from 2016/17
Package adopted on and published in OJ on ; deadline
Ports still targeted
Award of services concessions now caught

5. Services Concessions
Contracts “for pecuniary interest… the consideration of which…consists either solely in the right to exploit the [contract] services…or in that right together with payment”
Exception for some land lease contracts
Competitive market exemption

6. Port Services Regulation
Controversial!
Resurfaced in 2012
Aims to –
Strengthen market access for (pilotage, towage, mooring, dredging, bunkering and waste disposal)
Ensure financial transparency, incl. cargo handling charges
Improve port coordination and consultation
Lapsed…for now

7. Where next?

8. Contact details
Philip Wareham Head of EU & Competition Hill Dickinson LLP DD: +44 (0) E: