Article 10 Exchange of information and experience

enhance the information required for the effective implementation of this Directive, in particular as provided by the European satellite-based pollution detection service set up by this Directive (CleanSeaNet) and by other relevant reporting mechanisms, with a view to developing reliable methods of tracing polluting substances in the sea;

develop and implement an appropriate control and monitoring system, integrating the information provided in accordance with paragraph (a) with the information made available by the Commission to the Member States in SafeSeaNet, THETIS-EU and other Union information databases and tools in order to facilitate the early identification and monitoring of ships discharging polluting substances, with a view to optimising enforcement actions undertaken by national authorities;

make optimum use of the information provided in accordance with points (a) and (b) of this paragraph, as well as the information reported by Member States pursuant to Article 10a, with a view to facilitating the access to and the exchange of such information between competent authorities and with authorities of other Member States and the Commission; and

by 6 July 2030, ensure that competent authorities digitally analyse all high-confidence alerts and indicate whether or not they verify those high-confidence alerts sent by CleanSeaNet every year, striving to verify at least 25 % of those high-confidence alerts, where ‘verify’ means any follow-up actions by competent authorities of an alert sent by CleanSeaNet to determine whether the alert in question corresponds to an illegal discharge. If a Member State does not verify an alert, it should indicate the reasons for not doing so.