Health & Safety Report 2015

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2015

Figure 17: Key Milestones for Implementing the EU Offshore Safety Directive

Key Milestones

Deepwater Horizon/Macondo explosion, Gulf of Mexico European Commission publishes a report on Facing the Challenge of the Safety of Offshore Oil and Gas Activities European Commission publishes draft Regulation to centralise control of offshore health and safety and environmental protection EU Safety Directive ratified by European Parliament after significant lobbying changes the proposed Regulation to a Directive

20 April 2010

October 2010

October 2011

May 2013

EU Offshore Safety Directive adopted

July 2013

Formal UK public consultation on the Directive

July to September 2014

EU Implementing Regulation published, which requires

October 2014

specific major accident related incidents to be reported

UK legislation to implement the EU Offshore Safety Directive comes into force

19 July 2015

Compliance deadline for non-production installations

July 2016

Compliance deadline for existing production

July 2018

installations (those that have accepted safety cases on or before 18 July 2013)

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