Resolution 2
ISO/TC8 Advisory Group agrees that the ISO/TC8 Chairman should advise SC4 to hold a plenary meeting within the next 12 months to review its work programme and progress on its work items.
Resolution 3
ISO/TC8 Advisory Group took note that the ISO13819-4 Anchoring Systems for MODU's has been published by ISO/TC67 and agrees that this item should be discontinued from the ISO/TC8/SC4 work programme and status report.
Note Secretariat: I would inform you that after TC8/Plenary and TC8 AG meeting in Tokyo, Chinese delegation for TC8 Plenary and AG, Mr. Xie Wenlan, new Secretary of TC8/SC4 and Mr. Zhang Haiming, China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, visited JMSA on 25 October. to explain the reason why they were late and to know the conclusion of both TC8 Plenary and TC8 AG.
Mr. Ogo and Mr. Koyama explained the conclusions of the both meetings and provided any information, such as the both Resolutions of TC8 Plenary and TC8AG, News letters, and other materials distributed in both meetings.
The Chinese Delegation promised to consider the SC4 issues that were raised in the TC8 AG after coming back to their office. Mr. Gromov expressed the difficulty to proceed the TC8/SC7 work on the point of getting the participants from P members in SC7 and suggested that the possible change of SC7 Secretariat to Germany seems to be appropriate, because Germany is a major country developing standards relating to inland vessels in CEN TC15.
Mr. van Dijk proposed to send a message to Mr. Schade who is in hospital recovering. The item was approved and the message sent.
Mr. van Dijk also announced that it is a very difficult situation for him to continue as a member of the TC8 Plenary and AG as a representative of Denmark, and introduced a possible representative name. Mr. Koyama asked Mr. van Dijk to continue as a member of the TC8 Plenary and AG. All members expressed their strong desire for Mr. Van Dijk to continue in TC8 if at all possible.
10. FUTURE MEETINGS ISO/TC8 AG
The Chairman announced that the place of next ISO/TC8 AG meeting is not decided yet, but TC8 AG meeting scheduled in Autumn in 2000 will be held subsequently to the ISO/TC8 plenary in Gdansk Poland.
11. APPROVAL OF RESOLUTIONS
8N 533 - Resolution 29th meeting ISO/TC8 AG, Tokyo, Japan, 1999-10-22
Resolution 1 up to and including 3, as recorded in doc. 8AG N533 and cited in this report are approved.
12. CLOSURE OF THE MEETING
The Chairman closed the 29th TSO/TC8 AG meeting with the traditional blowing of the boatswain's pipe.
