GERMANY: SHIPS AND SHIP SAFETY The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/NOTIF. 96.59. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: GERMANY. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Federal Ministry of Transport. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2, 2.10.1, 5.6.2, 5.7.1. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Ships and ship safety equipment. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document. Eighth Ordinance to Amend the Ship Safety Ordinance (Achte Verordnung zur Anderung der Schiffssicherheitsverordnung) (17 pages). 6. Description of content: Provisions governing: The implementation of the provisions of Article 14(2) and Article 15 of EU Council Directive 95/21 of 19 June 1995 concerning the enforcement, in respect of shipping using Community ports and sailing in the waters under the jurisdiction of the member States, of international standards for ship safety, pollution prevention and shipboard living and working conditions (Port State Control); the putting into force, on the national level, of the provisions of the Annex to IMO Resolution MSC.42(64), adopted on 9 December 1995, concerning a set of amendments to the SOLAS Convention relating to provisions on cargo information, stowage and securing, and documents, which will enter into force under international law on 1 July 1996; the legal foundation, on the national level, of shipboard controls of operational procedures under the provisions of the amendments, to enter into force under international law on 3 March 1996, to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto; the admission to the ``Harmonized System of Survey and Certification'' of vessels engaged on national voyages; the abolition of the regulations on mandatory inspection/approval of the fitting of radar transponders for search and rescue; the carriage of radio life-saving appliances aboard non-SOLAS vessels engaged on international voyages and of all vessels engaged on national voyages; the inclusion of a set of internationally agreed testing procedures into the fire protection regulations section of the Ship Safety Ordinance as well as the inclusion of a number of other systems, equipment, arrangements, and installations (including night vision apparatus, searchlights, and a ship identification system) into the safety regulations section of that Ordinance. 7. Objective and rationale: Improvement in the safety of cargo and passenger ships. 8. Relevant documents: For relevant documents refer to Item 6. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 July 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 15 May 1996. 11. Texts available from: National enquiry point () or address and telefax number of other body: Bundesministerium fur Verkehr, Postfach 20 01 00. D-53170 BONN, Telefax numbers: +49-228-300-3428/3429. (087)

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