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EU Directive: safety of offshore oil and gas operations

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DIRECTIVE 2013/30/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 June 2013 on safety of offshore oil and gas operations and amending Directive 2004/35/EC

The above EU Directive (available in many languages, including Dutch) may be of assistance to people around the world who are concerned about the operations of European oil companies. 

A link to the directive is provided at the foot of this article.

The EU directive requires European companies involved in the oil industry to comply with the contents of the directive itself, and their own internal policies and standards globally (SEMS). Oil companies do not publish their own internal policies and standards, which they consider to be confidential. However, most court cases are actually the result of Shell’s employees ignoring the SEMS standards, so this is most helpful if copies of the relevant standards can be obtained through discovery or other means. The SEMS standards are required to be in place for the companies to operate in Europe. 

Lawyers involved in proceedings against European oil companies regarding their global activities now have a legal basis on which to take action against the companies, where previously there was scope for confusion.

Perhaps one of our readers has a DVD of Shell’s SEMS that we could make accessible on this website?

Safety of offshore oil and gas operations and amending Directive 2004/35/EC

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