GERMANY: TENTH ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE SHIP SAFETY ORDINANCE (ZEHNTE VERORDNUNG ZUR A

AC T='4'>NDERUNG DER SCHIFFSSICHERHEITSVERORDNUNG) The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.96.453. 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. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 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, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Tenth Ordinance to Amend the Ship Safety Ordinance (Zehnte Verordnung zur A

AC T='4'>nderung der Schiffssicherheitsverordnung) (7 pages). 6. Description of content: Provisions governing: The implementation of Articles 14(2) and 15 of EU Council Directive 95/21/EEC "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)" dated 19 June 1995, following the non-inclusion, owing to the lack of a legal basis, of these Articles into the Ninth Ordinance to amend the Ship Safety Ordinance; the implementation of the "Agreement concerning specific stability requirements for ro-ro passenger ships undertaking regular scheduled international voyages between or to or from designated ports in North West Europe and in the Baltic Sea", the provisions of which will become mandatory from 1 April 1997; the implementation of a set of amendments to the SOLAS Convention, adopted on 29 November 1995 in the form of Resolution 1 of the Conference of Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, aimed at enhancing the safety of ferries and ro-ro passenger ships, and becoming mandatory under international law on 1 July 1997. 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: 1 April 1997; Proposed date of entry into force: 1 July 1997. 10. Final date for comments: 15 February 1997. 11. Texts available from: National enquiry point or address and telefax number of other body: Bundesministerium fu

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