1 The Secretary-General of the International Maritime
Organization has the honour to refer to the International Convention
on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
(STCW), 1978 footnoteand to the Conference of
Parties to the STCW Convention, which
was held at the Headquarters of the Organization from 26 June to 7
July 1995.
2 As a result of its deliberations, recorded in
the reports of the respective Committees and in the records of decisions
of plenary meetings of the Conference and meetings of the Committee
of the Whole, the Conference, inter alia, adopted the
Seafarers' Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Code, together
with resolution 2 on adoption of the Code, which constitutes attachment
2 to the Final Act of the Conference.
3 The Conference (STCW/CONF/RD/2) agreed that,
together with the draft Final Act, the full text of draft amendments
to the STCW Convention and draft Conference resolutions would be submitted
to the Plenary for adoption whilst, in respect of the STCW Code, only
the text of draft amendments thereto agreed by the Committee of the
Whole (STCW/CONF/DC/2 and STCW/CONF/DC/2/Corr.1) would be submitted
to the Plenary for adoption and the remaining part of the Code would
be adopted by reference to document STCW/CONF/5/Rev.1.
4 Taking into account the instructions of the
Conference and documents STCW/CONF/5/Rev. 1, STCW/CONF/DC/2 and STCW/CONF/DC/2/Corr.1,
the Secretariat has prepared the full text of the STCW Code, attached
hereto.
5 The attached text, which is circulated for the
advance information of Parties to the STCW Convention and Member Governments, is not the authentic text of the STCW
Code. The authentic text, which will exclude such detail as footnotes,
will be circulated in due course.