INTERNATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC ORGANIZATION REGULATIONS OF THE IHO FOR INTERNATIONAL (INT) CHARTS AND CHART SPECIFICATIONS OF THE IHO Edition 4.8.0 – October 2018 (Publication date: November 2018) PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC ORGANIZATION MONACO Edition 4.8.0 S-4 October 2018 © Copyright International Hydrographic Organization 2018 This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted in accordance with the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886), and except in the circumstances described below, no part may be translated, reproduced by any process, adapted, communicated or commercially exploited without prior written permission from the Secretariat of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). Copyright in some of the material in this publication may be owned by another party and permission for the translation and/or reproduction of that material must be obtained from the owner. 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III INTERNATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC ORGANIZATION REGULATIONS OF THE IHO FOR INTERNATIONAL (INT) CHARTS AND CHART SPECIFICATIONS OF THE IHO PART A REGULATIONS OF THE IHO FOR INTERNATIONAL (INT) CHARTS SECTIONS 100-600 PART B CHART SPECIFICATIONS OF THE IHO MEDIUM- AND LARGE-SCALE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL (INT) CHARTS (SCALES LARGER THAN 1:2 MILLION) SECTIONS 100-600 PART C CHART SPECIFICATIONS OF THE IHO SMALL-SCALE INTERNATIONAL (INT) CHARTS (SCALES 1:2 MILLION AND SMALLER) SECTIONS 100-500 Published by the International Hydrographic Organization 4b quai Antoine 1er Principauté de Monaco Tel: (377) 93.10.81.00 Fax: (377) 93.10.81.40 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.iho.int Edition 4.8.0 S-4 October 2018 Page intentionally left blank V PREFACE The publication S-4 (previously M-4) ‘Regulations of the IHO for International (INT) Charts and Chart Specifications of the IHO, includes: • Part A: ‘Regulations of the IHO for International (INT) Charts’ • Part B: ‘Chart Specifications of the IHO for Medium- and Large-scale National and International (INT) Charts’ • Part C: ‘Chart Specifications of the IHO for Small-Scale International (INT) Charts’ The three Parts of S-4 are further subdivided into Sections dealing with specific topics. Regulations and Specifications relating to particular topics may be found either by their subject matter in the Contents page at the beginning of each Section, or by reference to column 5 of INT 1 for Part B and the index for Part C. Cross referencing draws attention to related Regulations, Technical Resolutions and Specifications. This publication was developed and maintained by the IHO’s Chart Standardization Committee to 2003. Its maintenance is now the responsibility of the Nautical Cartography Working Group (NCWG), to which comments and corrections should be advised. The procedures for correcting and updating S-4 are described in the Introduction to each Part. The adoption of a digital format (from Edition 3.000 in 2005) has eliminated the need for extensive hand-corrections, as updated sections or sub sections will be posted on the IHO web-site whenever amendments come into force. Whenever such an update is made, a new version of S-4 will be made available on the web-site. Initially, the edition number at the foot of each page was followed by a version number to the right of the full stop, which was increased by one whenever an updated version of S-4 was produced. From 2011, version control numbering to identify changes (n) to IHO technical standards and specifications, including S-4, was standardized as: New Editions denoted as n.0.0 Revisions denoted as n.n.0 Clarifications denoted as n.n.n An explanation of these terms can be found in IHO Resolution 2/2007. The Record of Updates at the beginning of Parts A and C, and at the beginning of each section of Part B, provides a history and summary of changes, excluding minor editorial corrections. Previously, Part A had a ‘draft’ edition in 1981, a ‘first’ edition in 1984 and a ‘second’ edition when incorporated into M-4 in 2000; Part B (originally MP-004, later simplified to M-4) had a ‘preliminary’ edition in 1981 and a ‘first’ edition in 1988; Part C had a ‘first’ edition in 1970 and a ‘second’ edition when incorporated into M-4 in 2001. M-4 was reissued in 2005 in a completely new format; to avoid confusion, this was numbered Edition 3.000. In 2010, a completely new section on Chart Maintenance (B-600) was added, issued in S-4 Edition 4.000. The next update, issued in 2011, was denoted as a ‘revision’ and introduced the new style of version control numbering; it was therefore numbered 4.1.0. A complete revision cycle of S-4 Part B was completed in 2014 by the Chart Standardization and Paper Chart Working Group with the publication of a completely updated and revised Section B-500 in edition 4.5.0. This publication should be available in separate English, French and Spanish versions. The numbering system is identical in all three versions. INT 1, INT 2 and INT 3 are reference documents supplementary to Parts B and C of S-4. A cross reference to the relevant S-4 specification and symbol is provided in INT1 (column 5). Edition 4.8.0 S-4 October 2018 Page intentionally left blank Regulations of the IHO for INT Charts A PART A SECTIONS 100 - 600 REGULATIONS OF THE IHO FOR INTERNATIONAL (INT) CHARTS Edition 4.8.0 S-4 Part A October 2018 Page intentionally left blank Regulations of the IHO for INT Charts A Page iii CONTENTS INTRODUCTION RECORD OF UPDATES SECTION 100 - GENERAL A-101 PURPOSE OF INTERNATIONAL CHARTS A-102 INTERNATIONAL CHARTING PRINCIPLES A-103 DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CHARTS A-104 INTERNATIONAL CHART TERMS SECTION 200 - SCHEMES OF INTERNATIONAL CHARTS A-201 SCHEMES A-202 SCHEMING PRINCIPLES A-203 PRODUCERS A-204 CHART NUMBERING SECTION 300 - SPECIFICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL CHARTS A-301 SMALL-SCALE CHARTS A-302 MEDIUM- AND LARGE-SCALE CHARTS SECTION 400 - MAINTENANCE OF INTERNATIONAL CHARTS A-401 GENERAL A-402 NEW CHARTS, NEW EDITIONS AND OTHER CHART UPDATES: RESPONSIBILITIES A-403 NOTICES TO MARINERS - PROCEDURES A-404 REVISED REPRINTS SECTION 500 - EXCHANGE OF REPRODUCTION MATERIAL A-501 GENERAL A-502 DIGITAL REPROMAT A-503 ANALOGUE REPROMAT SECTION 600 - FINANCIAL ASPECTS A-601 ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN PRODUCERS AND PRINTERS Edition 4.8.0 S-4 Part A October 2018 Page intentionally left blank Regulations of the IHO for INT Charts A Page v INTRODUCTION In his opening speech at the second International Hydrographic Conference in 1926, Admiral J M PHAFF, the President of the Directing Committee of the International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB, now IHO Secretariat) at that time, said: ‘In a time-worn and completely forgotten pamphlet which was published in Washington, in 1884, Mr E R KNORR, the Chief Draughtsman of a Hydrographic surveying expedition of the United States of America, had already proposed the issue of original charts and he gave figures showing the enormous economies which could be effected if all the nations which publish charts of the same coast or port were to come to an understanding as to the reproduction of these charts on a common basis. This far-seeing man pleaded also for a permanent international Hydrographic institution, giving numerous examples showing the necessity for its existence, and he states that his proposal to convene an international Conference on the subject succeeded to the extent that two Governments actually came into communication with reference to such convocation. It required the perspicacity of Monsieur RENAUD (*) to rediscover this same obstacle, which impelled him to write an article on the International Chart which appeared in the French “Annales Hydrographiques” of 1918. Following up this idea, the advantages of an international Conference to discuss the subject came likewise to his mind and, as soon as the support of the British Hydrographer was assured, the first really International Hydrographic Conference, the dream of Mr KNORR, was conceived. These two Chiefs, both of them professional men, well aware of the intricacies of the subject, did not belittle the enormous difficulties which they would have to overcome.’ The draft IHO Regulations for International Charts were compiled from the reports, agreements and studies of the North Sea International Chart Commission. They were amended and agreed by the Chart Specifications Committee and its successor, the Chart Standardization Committee, and were finally completed in 1984. Thus, 100 years after the publishing of Mr Knorr’s pamphlet, his vision became reality.