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Proposed new regulation on Preparing for the voyage
5.73 The Sub-Committee considered a proposal by Germany (NAV 44/5/13) to include in chapter V a proposed regulation on "Preparing for the voyage" and..............].
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[Format of the revised chapter V
5.74 The Sub-Committee considered proposals by Germany and the Netherlands (NAV 43/5, annex 1), Greece (NAV 43/5/7) and the United Kingdom (NAV 44/5/12) on arrangement of the regulations and was of the [opinion that] . . .[agreed that the revised chapter V should follow a logical sequence and be divided into [four] parts].]
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5.75 The complete revised draft text of Chapter V together with the associated draft MSC resolution is set out in annex . . . for the Committee's consideration and approval and subsequent adoption by MSC 73.
6 ERGONOMIC CRITERIA FOR BRIDGE EQUPMENT AND LAYOUT
6.1 The Sub-Committee recalled that, at its forty-third session, noting the progress (NAV 43/6) being made and that the Correspondence Group was unlikely to complete its work by NAV 44, it had invited the Correspondence Group to continue its work and had agreed to defer further consideration of this matter until the work was nearing completion and the ergonomic criteria had been sufficiently developed for detailed consideration by the Sub-Committee. Any requests by the Correspondence Group for guidance on its work would, in accordance with the decision of the Committee (MSC 68/23, paragraph 20.3), should be considered by the Sub-Committee under the agenda item "Any Other Business".
6.2 The Sub-Committee also recalled that, at its forty-third session, it had instructed the Secretariat to communicate with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in particular with regard to the work of Technical Committee 8 (TC8), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), in particular with regard to the work of Technical Committee 80 (TC80), in order to obtain information on the work currently being carried out by these bodies on ergonomic criteria for bridge equipment and layout, and to invite ISO and IEC to participate in the ISO Correspondence Group.
