Exactly. Ships cause enormous amounts of pollution but are practically unregulated thanks to the lobbying influence of companies that import and export.
It was trivial to find this. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3...
In addition to that, the EU marine shipping system seems to be in some turmoil over some required major capital expenditures due to a double-hull regulation, which I also wanted to mention, but I can't quite find it.