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In this paper, EU efforts to include the shipping sector in its greenhouse gas reduction commitment for 2020 are analyzed. The author looks at the effect of including the shipping sector's emissions in the EU reduction commitment that is based on the nationality of a ship. The findings indicate that the shipping sector could contribute efficiently to the EU's emission reductions by up to 8.5%. Since the composition of the individual country fleets and applied measures are similar across countries, their individual reductions relative to their fleet-specific business-as-usual (BAU) emissions are on average the same.