European shipowners have urged members of the European Parliament to support a Commission proposal to add two Indian ship recycling yards to the EU’s official list of approved facilities, ahead of a decisive committee vote on 4 November 2026. Sources indicated the appeal on 29 October 2026.
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament is scheduled to vote on a motion for resolution that objects to the Commission’s proposal to include the two Indian yards on the European List of Ship Recycling Facilities. The motion will be considered at the committee meeting on 4 November 2026, when MEPs will decide whether to sustain the objection.
European Shipowners, represented through the association ECSA, has publicly called on MEPs to reject the motion for resolution and to back the Commission’s decision to add the two Indian yards. The association’s appeal, as reported, asks parliamentarians to support the inclusion rather than maintain the objection being advanced in the committee.
The contested proposal is a Commission measure to amend the European List of Ship Recycling Facilities by adding the two facilities in India. The list is the instrument by which facilities outside the Union are recognised for compliance with requirements linked to ship recycling operations, and the current item under consideration relates specifically to those two yards.
Committee timetable and parliamentary procedure
The Environment Committee vote on 4 November 2026 will determine whether the committee advances the motion objecting to the Commission’s proposal. If the motion for resolution is adopted by the committee, it would represent a formal parliamentary objection to the Commission’s measure.
ECSA’s request to MEPs, reported on 29 October 2026, is directed at members who will sit on that committee vote, urging them to withhold support for the objection and thereby allow the Commission’s proposed additions to the European list to proceed.
Industry appeal and political scrutiny
The appeal from European Shipowners frames the issue as one where parliamentarians must choose between endorsing the Commission’s addition of the two Indian yards to the EU list or supporting the committee motion that seeks to block it. The reported correspondence from the shipowners' association focuses solely on that choice.
The matter now sits with the Environment Committee and with MEPs who will take part in the 4 November vote. The outcome of that committee decision will shape whether the parliamentary objection is sustained or dismissed, and it will determine the immediate parliamentary response to the Commission’s proposal.
Parliamentary deliberation and the appeal from industry interests are the only confirmed facts set out in the available reporting. The reports item dated 29 October 2026 provides the timeline and the positions described above, centred on the committee vote and the call from ECSA for MEPs to back the Commission’s move to include the two Indian facilities on the European List of Ship Recycling Facilities.