EUCommonShipSanitationDatabase

The Greek “Public health observatory in means of transport and points of entry” at the Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology –University of Thessaly has undertaken the continuation, administration, maintenance and full support of the EU Common Ship Sanitation Database. The EU Common Ship Sanitation Database (https://sis.shipsan.eu) is an online European Information System which is used by EU MS, public health authorities, National Focal Points, shipping companies, WHO, ECDC, and international organisations. The scope and objectives are to: - support the risk assessment and response to public health events, determining mitigation actions in response to events that pose public health risks - record inspections conducted according to the European Manual for Hygiene Standards and Communicable Disease Surveillance on Passenger Ships (https://shipsanassociation.shipsan.eu/european-manual-for-hygiene-standards-and-communicable-disease-surveillance-on-passenger-ships/) - record inspection results and issuance of Ship Sanitation Certificates SSC (WHO-IHR 2005 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580496) for all types of ships sailing in the European Union - facilitate communication and exchange of information related to incidents of public health in ships: ship-to-port, port-to-port, port-to-national - facilitate sharing of information in the Maritime Declaration of Health by providing a European database for storing the Maritime Declaration, submitted by ships to the Maritime National Single Window (MNSW) of the EU MS (Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC Text with EEA relevance (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32010L0065) - facilitate and apply the requirements for Article 17 of a Common Ship Sanitation Database (Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment and repealing Directive 2010/65/EU) (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1239/oj).