Document informel No 1 Informal document No.1 Point 7a) de l’ordre du jour Agenda item 7(a) Transmis par le Groupe des volontaires Prepared by the Group of volunteers PROJET DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS ON A HARMONIZED EUROPE WIDE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INLAND NAVIGATION VESSELS (amended annex to resolution no.17, revised) 2005 TRANS/SC.3/… page 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter 1 General provisions Chapter 2 Procedure and rules for the inspection of inland navigation vessels Chapter 3 Shipbuilding requirements Chapter 3a Fire protection Chapter 4 Safety clearance, freeboard and draught marks Chapter 5 Manoeuvrability Chapter 6 Steering gear Chapter 7 Wheelhouse Chapter 8 Engine design Chapter 8a Exhaust and pollutant particulate emissions from diesel engines Chapter 8b Prevention of water pollution and abatement of noise produced by vessels Chapter 9 Electrical installations Chapter 10 Equipment Chapter 11 Working spaces Chapter 12 Crew accommodation Chapter 13 Fuel-fired heating, cooking and refrigerating equipment (Left void) Chapter 14 Liquefied gas installations for domestic purposes Chapter 15 Special provisions for passenger vessels Chapter 15A Specific requirements for sailing passenger vessels (Left void) Chapter 16 Pushers, pushed barges and pushed and towed convoys Chapter 17 Specific requirements for sailing passenger vessels (Left void) Chapter 18 Specific requirements applicable to worksite craft (Left void) TRANS/SC.3/… page 3 Page Chapter 19 Specific requirements applicable to historic vessels (Left void) Chapter 19A Specific requirements applicable to canal barges (Left void) Chapter 19B Specific requirements applicable to craft navigating on zone 4 (Left void) Chapter 20 Specific requirements applicable to sea-going vessels (Left void) Chapter 21 Specific requirements applicable to recreational craft (Left void) Chapter 22 Stability of vessels carrying containers Chapter 22A Specific requirements applicable to craft longer than 110 m (Left void) Chapter 22B Specific requirements applicable to high-speed vessels Chapter 23 Crews Chapter 24 Transitional and final provisions (Left void) Appendix 1 List of European inland waterways divided geographically into zones 1, 2 and 3 Appendix 2 Model ship’s certificate Appendix 3 Safety signs and signals to be used on board inland navigation vessels Appendix 4 Alternative manoeuvrability test procedures and criteria in accordance with 5-2.1 Appendix 5 Model of a service record TRANS/SC.3/… page 4 CHAPTER 1 1/ GENERAL PROVISIONS 1-1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1-1.1 The purpose of this text is to provide recommendations on the design and equipment of inland navigation vessels with a view, in particular, to promoting the safety of vessels and crews; this text is not a substitute for national laws and regulations. 1-1.2 In general, these Recommendations shall, with due regard to definitions in 1-2, apply to: (i) vessels having a length L of 20 meters or more; (ii) vessels for which the product of L x B x T is a volume of 100 m3 or more.2/ 1-1.3 These Recommendations shall also apply, with due regard to definitions in 1-2, to all: (i) tugs and pushers, designated to tow or to push or to move alongside vessels as referred to in 1-1.2; (ii) vessels intended for passenger transport which carry more than 12 people in addition to the crew.3/ 1-1.4 In general, these Recommendations shall not apply to: (i) ferries, (ii) naval craft.4/ 1-1.5 For the purpose of these Recommendations, European inland waterways shall be classified as follows: Zone 1 (wave height of up to 2.0 m): the waterways listed in chapter I of appendix 1 to these Recommendations; Zone 2 (height of up to 1.2 m): the waterways listed in chapter II of appendix 1 to these Recommendations; Zone 3 (height of up to 0.6 m): the waterways listed in chapter III of appendix 1 to these Recommendations. On inland waterways not listed in appendix 1 as belonging to navigational zones 1, 2 or 3, Administrations may establish technical requirements which differ from the provisions of these Recommendations. Such technical requirements should be adapted to the geographical, hydrological and navigational conditions prevailing on the respective inland waterway and 1/ Former chapter 1, see TRANS/SC.3/2004/1/Add.2. 2/ Article 2, section 1 of the draft Directive amending Directive 82/714/82 (CM3985/04). 3/ Directive, Article 2, section 2. 4/ Directive, Article 2, section 3, partly (sea-going vessels are excluded due to article 1-1.1). TRANS/SC.3/… page 5 should be equally applied to all vessels navigating on this waterway. It is understood, however, that vessels allowed to navigate on inland waterways belonging to zones 1, 2 and 3, satisfy the safety requirements applied on those unclassified inland waterways. 5/ 1-1.6 Unless otherwise stated, the provisions of the present Recommendations shall apply to new vessels that are intended to navigate in the navigational zones mentioned in 1-1.5, differentiated by the maximum significant wave height 6/ corresponding to a 5 per cent probability of over-topping. 1-1.7 These provisions shall apply to existing inland navigation vessels so long as the Administration considers them reasonable and practicable. 1-1.8 The Administration may permit derogations from these provisions for limited journeys of local interest or in harbour areas. The derogations in question and the journeys or area for which they are valid shall be specified in the Ship’s Certificate.7/ 1-1.9 Vessels intended for the carriage of dangerous goods shall also satisfy the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways (ADN). 1-2 DEFINITIONS 8/ Types of craft "craft": a vessel or item of floating equipment. "vessel": an inland waterway vessel or sea-going ship. "inland waterway vessel": a vessel intended solely or mainly for navigation on inland waterways. "tug": a vessel specially built to perform towing operations. "pusher": a vessel specially built to propel a pushed convoy. "barge": a dumb barge or tank barge. "ship-borne lighter": a lighter built to be carried aboard sea-going ships and to navigate on inland waterways. 5/ With the exception of the lakes Ladoga and Onega in the Russian Federation where the height of waves reaches 3 m and over. In the Russian Federation navigable zones are marked not with figures 1, 2 and 3 but with Cyrillic letters О, P and Л, respectively. 6/ In this provision, "significant wave height" means the average of heights of 10 per cent of the total number of waves having the greater heights measured between wave trough and wave crest, observed over a short period. 7/ Directive , article 7, section 2. 8/ The list of definitions has been extended to include the definitions used in the consolidated texts of the amended chapters and harmonized with the definitions used in Annex II of the draft revised EC Directive (definitions from Annex II are shown in italics). TRANS/SC.3/… page 6 "passenger vessel": a day trip or cabin vessel constructed and equipped to carry more than 12 passengers; "day-trip vessel": a passenger vessel without overnight passenger cabins. "cabin vessel": a passenger vessel with overnight passenger cabins. “high-speed vessel”: a motorized vessel, with the exception of small craft, capable of sailing at a speed greater than 40 km/h in relation to the surface of still water, when this is stated in its ship’s certificate. "floating equipment": a floating installation carrying working gear such as cranes, dredging equipment, pile drivers or elevators. “ship’s boat”: a boat used for multipurpose application including transportation of people or cargoes as well as in rescue purposes complying with the requirements of the basin Administration or the European Standard. “flush-deck vessel”: a vessel which has no superstructure on its freeboard deck. “vessel carrying fixed containers”: vessels all of whose containers are fixed and having the equipment necessary to secure containers to the satisfaction of the Administration. Assemblies of craft "convoy": a rigid or towed convoy of craft. "formation": the manner in which a convoy is assembled. "rigid convoy": a pushed convoy or breasted-up formation. "pushed convoy": a rigid assembly of craft of which at least one is positioned in front of the craft providing the power for propelling the convoy, known as the "pusher(s)"; a convoy composed of a pusher and a pushed craft coupled so as to permit guided articulation is also considered as rigid. "breasted-up formation": an assembly of craft coupled rigidly side by side, none of which is positioned in front of the craft propelling the assembly. "towed convoy": an assembly of one or more craft, floating establishments or floating installations towed by one or more self-propelled craft forming part of the convoy. Particular areas on board “machinery space”: is the part of the vessel housing the main and auxiliary machinery. The machinery space can be divided up into a main engine room, an engine room and a boiler room. “main engine room”: the space where the main machinery is installed; TRANS/SC.3/… page 7 “engine room”: the space where only auxiliary machinery, namely internal combustion engines, is installed; “boiler room”: the space housing a fuel-operated installation designed to produce steam or to heat a thermal fluid. “superstructure”: is a decked structure on the freeboard deck which extends from side to side of the vessel or whose side walls are not set inboard of the ship’s sides by more than 4% of the breadth (B). “enclosed superstructure”: is a superstructure having closed bulkheads of sufficient strength, permanently so assembled with the deck as to be watertight; In which the access openings, if any, in these bulkheads are fitted with watertight doors; In which all other openings in the sides or ends are fitted with watertight closures.