1 Parties shall endeavour
to ensure that
ships provide training for their
officers and ratings
engaged in ballast water management
operations in the
application of ballast water
management and treatment
procedures. Such training shall
include, at a
minimum, with respect to ballast
water exchange at
sea, the matters contained in
Appendix 1, Part B,
Section l(a). Such training should
also include
instruction on the maintenance
of appropriate records
and logs.
2 Parties should ensure
that their marine
training organizations include
the above in the
contents of their syllabus. Parties
are encouraged to
include knowledge of duties regarding
the control of
pollution of the sea by harmful
aquatic organisms and
pathogens.
Proposed amendments
Regulation 5
The United Kingdom proposes to
simplify the first
sentence:
“Officers and ratings engaged
in ballast water
management operations shall be
trained in the
application of ballast water
management and treatment
procedures. ”20
Hong Kong, China comments 21
Greece comments 22
Regulation 6: Safety
requirements
Ships which conduct ballast water
management or
control options shall meet the
operating safety
requirements of Appendix 1, Part
B.
Proposed amendments
Regulation 6
Hong Kong, China comments 23
20 With the exception of the first sentence
of
paragraph 1,
this is too much detail for an Annex,
and should be
considered within STCW in keeping with
the practice in other
Annexes.The action should be restricted
upon the ship.
21 Regulation 5.1 requires ships to provide
training
for their officers and ratings. It is
not clear which party
of the ship should provide the training
- ship's master,
ship's chief engineer, ship's chief officer,
ship's crew
agency, ship's flag State, ship's owner,
or the ship's
manager, etc. It is the responsibility
of the marine training
organization to provide training and
such training should be
to the satisfaction of the certificate
issuing authority
before certificate is issued to the crew.
Since training is
fully covered in Reg.5.2 and STCW Convention,
it is proposed
to delete or amend Reg.5.1
22 The knowledge required for all certified
deck
officers could be established by STCW
and delivered through
the national curriculum. Ships would
also provide
"familiarization" to officers
and ratings as
necessary. This regulation - and the
following as well -
prescribe requirements, for ships "flying
their
flags" (see relevant remarks for
regulation 4(1 )).
23 There is only one paragraph in Reg.6
and the
paragraph number should be "1"
instead of
"3". The last word in this
regulation should be
"Section 1B" instead of "Section
1(b)"
