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(14) In view of the "polluter pays" principle, the costs of port reception facilities, including the treatment and disposal of ship-generated waste, should be covered by ships. In the interest of protecting the environment, the fee system should encourage the delivery of ship-generated waste to ports instead of discharge into the sea. This can be facilitated by providing that all ships contribute to the costs for the reception and handling of ship-generated waste so as to reduce the economic incentives to discharge into the sea. In view of the subsidiarity principle, Member States should, in accordance with their national laws and current practices, retain the powers to establish whether and in what proportion the fees related to quantities actually delivered by the ships will be included in the cost recovery systems for using port reception facilities. Charges for using these facilities should be fair, non-discriminatory and transparent.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.