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www.marinelink.com 29parties and the enforcers. The principal advantage for the declaring parties is the fact that the information required to en-ter EU ports will only need to be submit-ted once. Enforcers on the other hand will beneÞ t because sharing information on inspection and checks between ports will lead to fewer checks being needed in subsequent ports.Furthermore, to address the needs of the ship owners and operators who must comply with regulations, a virtual ship system will be created. This will include the development of automated compli-ance checking using real ship and freight data to inform the crew of any issues of non-compliance, as well as tasks which must be undertaken in order to comply with regulations. A forms system will be developed to aid ship operators with the completion of required documentation. This information will then be sent to the port system where it can be validated and the ship operator can be kept up to date about the current status of the form. Finally, the virtual class system will be a tool for class, port state control and (potentially) private parties to assess the state of the ship?s systems, including management, to link actual performance with relevant rules and legislation. This system will be further integrated with the virtual ship and port systems to provide the following services: ? Identify the KPIs and measurements that are linked to selected regulations or speciÞ c (safety or security) objectives and who is responsible for collection and quality control.? Collect available data for a speci Þ c ship for these objectives and rules. The data will be collated into a scorecard that will also include reliability measures to highlight the relevance of the scorecard.By integrating information that is al-ready collected by Shipping KPIs, the Oil Companies International Marine Forum and other organisations that are willing to provide such data on the ship owner or manager?s behalf, this system will provide an innovative and efÞ cient approach to documenting good qual-ity management procedures, resulting in higher quality technical and opera-tional systems. This in turn could make enforcement more efÞ cient and reduce interruptions for ships when complying with regulations and other voluntary re-porting.e-Compliance is a three year research project and is co-funded by EC?s DG MOVE and maritime regulatory stakeholders. The project?s consor- tium comprises representatives of the three main stakeholder groups in-volved: classiÞ cation societies (who create class rules), port state control (who enforce regulations) and ships (who need to comply with regula-tions). It consists of 10 partners, all of which bring their own areas of knowl-edge and experience of working in the maritime space. They include: ? BMT Group Ltd. ? Det Norske Veritas (DNV) ? Danaos Shipping Co Ltd. ? INLECOM Systems ? The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scienti Þ c Research (TNO)? TEMIS, Acciona Infraestructuras ? PORTIC Barcelona ? Norsk Marinteknisk Forskningsin- stitutt AS (MARINTEK) and ? The Maritime Administration of Latvia. MR #11 (26-33).indd 29MR #11 (26-33).indd 2911/11/2013 2:08:38 PM11/11/2013 2:08:38 PM