The Conference
HAVING ADOPTED resolution 1 on Adoption of
the 1995 amendments to the Annex to the International Convention on
Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
(STCW), 1978,
RECOGNIZING the importance of establishing
detailed mandatory standards of competence and other mandatory provisions
necessary to ensure that all seafarers shall be properly educated
and trained, adequately experienced, skilled and competent to perform
their duties in a manner which provides for the safety of life and
properly at sea and the protection of the marine environment,
ALSO RECOGNIZING the need to allow for the
timely amendment of such mandatory standards and provisions in order
to effectively respond to changes in technology, operations, practices
and procedures used on board ships,
RECALLING that a large percentage of maritime
casualties and pollution incidents are caused by human error,
APPRECIATING that one effective means of reducing
the risks associated with human error in the operation of seagoing
ships is to ensure that the highest practicable standards of training,
certification and competence are maintained in respect of the seafarers
who are employed on such ships'
DESIRING to achieve and maintain the highest
practicable standards for the safety of life and property at sea and
in port and for the protection of the environment,
HAVING CONSIDERED the Seafarers' Training,
Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Code, comprised of part A -
Mandatory standards regarding provisions of the Annex to the 1978
STCW Convention, as amended, and part B - Recommended guidance regarding
provisions of the 1978 STCW Convention, as amended, proposed and circulated
to all Members of the Organization and all Parties to the Convention,
NOTING that regulation I/1, paragraph 2, of
the amended Annex to the 1978 STCW Convention provides that part A
of the STCW Code supplements the regulations annexed to the Convention
and that any reference to a requirement in a regulation also constitutes
a reference to the corresponding section of part A of the STCW Code,
1.
ADOPTS:
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.1 the Seafarers' Training, Certification and
Watchkeeping (STCW) Code, part A - Mandatory standards regarding provisions
of the Annex to the 1978 STCW Convention, as amended, set out in Annex
1 to the present resolution;
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.2 the Seafarers' Training, Certification and
Watchkeeping (STCW) Code, part B - Recommended guidance regarding
provisions of the 1978 STCW Convention, as amended, and its Annex,
set out in Annex 2 to the present resolution;
2.
RESOLVES:
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.1 that the provisions of part A of the STCW Code
shall enter into force for each Party to the 1978 STCW Convention,
as amended, on the same date and in the same manner as the amendments
to that Convention adopted by the Conference;
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.2 to recommend that the guidance contained in
part B of the STCW Code should be taken into account by all Parties
to the 1978 STCW Convention, as amended, as from the date of entry
into force of the amendments to that Convention adopted by the Conference;
3.
INVITES the International Maritime
Organization:
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.1 to keep the provisions of parts A and B of
the STCW Code under review and consult, as may be appropriate, with
the International Labour Organization, the International Telecommunication
Union and the World Health Organization and to bring the need for
any future amendment thereto to the attention of the Maritime Safety
Committee for consideration and adoption as may be appropriate;
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.2 to communicate this resolution and any future
amendment thereto that may be adopted, to the attention of all Parties
to the STCW Convention.