(A.) Policy and legislation
(A.1) Policy objectives
The global action’s objective is to establish a common information sharing environment (CISE) enabling enhanced awareness and knowledge of what is happening at sea as an important contribution to efficiency in maritime operations and performance in all sectors within the EU maritime domain. This in turn will ultimately ensure safer, cleaner and more secure seas.
In line with the EU digital single market, this translates into seamless, more structured and trusted cross-sector and cross-border information exchange between public administrations across seven distinct maritime domains (maritime safety and security, maritime pollution and marine environment, fisheries control, border control, general law enforcement, trade and economy and defence).
CISE seeks therefore to develop appropriate semantic, technical, organisational and legal solutions and recommendations to enhance the interoperability between existing systems of around 400 maritime public authorities throughout the EU/EEA. As a result, the systems become compatible and the content, speed and reliability of information exchange optimal, enabling improved security and sustainable development of economic maritime activities.
Cross-sector and cross-border interoperability between maritime surveillance systems is the major innovative aspect of the CISE. The technical solution proposed is mainly based on the CISE data and service model.This solution has been tested by the major FP7 pre-operational validation project EUCISE 2020 and the solution is being consolidated in view of the operational phase. The interoperability specifications for CISE have been proposed for standardisation through an Industry Specification Group in ETSI. This development could also benefit the European industry: several industries participate to the ETSI group.
(A.2) EC perspective and progress report
The objective is to reach firm agreement on the CISE data and service model with all the stakeholders involved in maritime surveillance in Europe. This interoperability agreement should encourage Member States to invest more resources in the exchange of maritime surveillance information across Europe with CISE, thus ensuring the long-term sustainability of the programme.
The present version of the CISE data and service model was developed in 2014 by a pilot project (the CISE cooperation project) involving 28 partners from 12 European countries and covering different sea basins and different sectors.
The EUCISE 2020 FP7 project (CISE pre-operational validation) has developed the CISE components using the CISE data and service model and validated them in a pre-production environment. This project involved 39 authorities from 15 European countries and has been concluded on April 2019.
A Transitional Phase has been put in place, since May 2019, to prepare the ground for the deployment of CISE into operations post 2023. This phase, managed by EMSA and benefiting from the technological and scientific support of JRC, will build on the results and achievements of the EUCISE2020 project and the national interoperability projects.
The EUCISE2020 project has established in April 2019 an Industry Specification Group (ISG) in ETSI to consolidate the CISE data and service model (interoperability specifications). This group includes Public Administrations and Industries. The JRC supports the activities of the ISG with the role of counsellor.
(A.3) References
Council of the European Union: Council conclusions on Global Maritime Security (19 June 2017 - 10238/17)
- Council of the European Union: European Union Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS) – Action Plan adopted on 16 December 2014 - 17002/14
- Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council Better situational awareness by enhanced cooperation across maritime surveillance authorities: next steps within the Common Information Sharing Environment for the EU maritime domain (COM/2014/0451 final)
- Commission Staff Working Document: ‘Impact Assessment accompanying the communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council Better situational awareness by enhanced cooperation across maritime surveillance authorities: next steps within the Common Information Sharing Environment for the EU maritime domain’ (SWD/2014/0225 final)
- Council conclusions Towards the integration of maritime surveillance: A common information sharing environment for the EU maritime domain, 3092nd General Affairs Council meeting, Brussels, 23 May 2011
- Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament Draft roadmap towards establishing the Common Information Sharing Environment for the surveillance of the EU maritime domain (COM/2010/0584 final)
- Council conclusions on integration of maritime surveillance, 2974th External Relations Council meeting, Brussels, 17 November 2009
- Communication from the Commission to the Council the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Towards the integration of maritime surveillance: A common information sharing environment for the EU maritime domain {SEC(2009) 1341} (COM/2009/0538 final)
- Commission Staff Working Document: Review of the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) for the maritime domain: 2014 – 2019 (SWD/2019/322 final)
(B.) Requested actions
Action 1 Based on the existing CISE data and service model, complete semantic and technical interoperability specifications to exchange surveillance information between competent authorities could be standardised.
Action 2 The complementary actions could be developed in addition to the standardisation action:
- Development of a reference implementation of the
- CISE software components to facilitate the adoption of CISE by interested authorities.
- Development of a testing platform to assess whether the CISE interface developed by the national authorities complies with the standardised specifications.
- Development of template service level agreement or memorandum of understanding for the future agreements on sharing information between Member States
(C.) Activities and additional information
(C.1) Related standardisation activities
ISO
ISO/TC 8: Ships and marine technology
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=45776
ISO/TC8 new focus items include:
- Cyber safety
- Electronic certification for port entry; data harmonisation, e-Navigation, IHO
Ships’ Energy Efficiency, EEOI, reductions in emissions from ships in freight transport
Projects include:
- ISO 19847, Ships and marine technology -- Shipboard data servers to share field data on the sea
- ISO 19848, Ships and marine technology -- Standard data for shipboard machinery and equipment
IEC
IEC/TC 80 Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems has produced standards:
- IEC 62729 Long Range Identification and Tracking
- IEC 61993-2 Automatic Identification Systems for SOLAS ships
- IEC 62287 Automatic Identification Systems for non SOLAS ships
- IEC 62320 Automatic Identification Systems shore infrastructure
Current activities include the following projects:
- Satellite terminals to support new satellite service providers
- VHF Data Exchange System to support future e-navigation
- S-100 Common Maritime Data Structure to support future e-navigation
CENELEC
CLC/SR 80 Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems. Standards and projects in CLC/SR 80 are those conducted at IEC level.
ONEM2M
As a multi domains/solutions platform oneM2M is a perfect choice for the retrieval and analysis data in complex systems, such as the CISE ones. Collection and exposure of data form different sources, from weather stations to floating sensors (buoys) for tsunami, from predictive maintenance of naval machineries to boats digital twins, from ports logistics to port surveillance assistants
ETSI
ETSI has set up the Industry Specification Group ETSI ISG ‘European Common information sharing environment service and Data Model’ (ISG CDM), whose main objective is to develop a consistent set of technical specifications to allow data exchange among different legacy systems in a cooperative network, European Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE). https://www.etsi.org/committee/1584-cdm
Common Information Sharing Environment provides a networked ecosystems that share an Nx1 (instead of an NxM) integration paradigm. The standardisation of common practices reduces computational resource consumption.