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Recommendations-01
“IMO Conventions Effective
Implementations”
Considering
that:
1.
Timor-Leste, as a maritime nation, should be fully integrated into the
international maritime community.
2.
It has need to develop all activities and areas of intervention linked to the
maritime transport sector, while ensuring and protecting human life at sea and
protection of the marine environment.
3.
It must have policies and rules applicable to navigation, maritime safety,
maritime protection, protection of human life at sea and protection of the
marine environment, as much as possible harmonized and adopted in a framework
similar to the international practice.
4.
Following the accession of Timor-Leste to the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), under the National Parliament Resolution No. 17/2012,
of 17 December, Timor-Leste must urgently.
5. Meet its other international
obligations with respect to its accession to the other international maritime
conventions.
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Recommendations:
Due to the convenience of
ensuring the maritime safety, maritime protection, protection of the marine
environment and facilitation of the maritime transport in Timor-Leste, the
participants attending the World Maritime Day Conference 2014 in Timor-Leste
recommend:
1.
The implementation of the Organic Law of the National Directorate for Maritime
Transport.
2. The accession of Timor-Leste
to the main IMO Conventions, like:
a.
International Convention for the Safety of Live at Sea (SOLAS 74);
b.
International Convention on Ships Tonnage Measurements; (Tonnage 69);
c.
International Convention on Load Lines (LL 66);
d.
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL
73/78);
e.
International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch
keeping for Seafarers (STCW 78);
f.
International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR 79);
g.
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness Response and Cooperation
(OPRC 90);
h.
Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL 65);
i.
Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collision at Sea
(COLREG 72); and
j. Maritime Labor Convention,
(MLC 2006).
3.
Drafting all relevant maritime regulations to implement Timor-Leste functions
as Flag State, Port State and Costal State.
4. Request a faster response from the country to accept
and become party to the main IMO Conventions and recommendations.
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Recommendations-02
“Establishment of a Search and
Rescue System in Timor-Leste”
Considering:
1.
That Timor-Leste, as a maritime nation, should be fully integrated into the
international maritime community and, above all, its need to develop all
activities and areas of intervention linked to the maritime transport sector,
while ensuring and protecting human life at sea and protection of the marine
environment.
2.
The need for policies and rules applicable to navigation, maritime safety,
maritime protection, protection of human life at sea and combating marine
pollution, as much as possible harmonized and adopted in a framework of
international cooperation.
3.
Several international Conventions give particular importance to the provision
of assistance to persons in distress at sea and the establishment, by all
coastal states, of adequate and effective devices for coastal monitoring and
search and rescue services.
4.
The accession of Timor-Leste to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea (UNCLOS), under the National Parliament Resolution No. 17/2012, of 17
December.
5. The obligations under UNCLOS,
Article 98º, as following:
a) Every State shall require the
master of a ship flying its flag, in so far as he can do so without serious
danger to the ship, the crew or the passengers:
i.
to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost;
ii. to proceed with all possible
speed to the rescue of persons in distress, if informed of their need of
assistance, in so far as such action may reasonably be
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of him;
iii. after a collision, to
render assistance to the other ship, its crew and its passengers and, where
possible, to inform the other ship of the name of his own ship, its port of
registry and the nearest port at which it will call.
b) Every coastal State shall
promote the establishment, operation and maintenance of an adequate and
effective search and rescue service regarding safety on and over the sea and,
where circumstances so require, by way of mutual regional arrangements
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Recommendations:
The convenience of coordinating
national and international activities related to safety of life at sea between
various governmental organizations, the participants attending the World
Maritime Day Conference in Timor-Leste recommend:
1. The accession to the following
international conventions:
a.
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea - SOLAS (1974);
b. International Convention on
Maritime Search and Rescue (1979), amended by resolutions MSC.70 (69) and
MSC.155 (78);
2.
The establishment of a Timorese Search and Rescue System for the provision of
search and rescue services and response in maritime emergencies.
3.
The design and approval by the Council of Ministers of a Timorese Search and
Rescue Regulation.
4.
The design and approval of a Timorese Maritime Search and Rescue Plan, in
coordination with all related national entities and institutions.
5.
The establishment of a coordination system and agreements with neighbouring
countries for the provision of joint search and rescue services and maritime
communications.
6. To the Ministry of Transport
and Communications to exercise its competence as National Authority for the
establishment and coordination of Search and Rescue Services, in accordance
with the powers delegated by the Government.
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Recommendations-03
“Establishment of a Maritime
Protection System in Timor-Leste in accordance to the ISPS Code from IMO”
Considering:
1.
Timor-Leste, being a maritime nation, has the duty to make travel and transport
by sea as secure as possible.
2.
The importance and significance of shipping to world trade and economy and
being determined to safeguard the worldwide supply chain against any breach
resulting from terrorist attacks against ships, ports, offshore terminals or
other facilities.
3.
Concern about worldwide escalation of acts of terrorism in all its forms and
considering that unlawful acts against shipping jeopardize property and personal
safety and security, seriously affecting the operation of maritime services and
undermining people’s confidence in maritime navigation safety.
4.
The new requirements from the international framework through which
Governments, ships and port facilities can cooperate to detect and deter acts
that threaten security in the maritime transport sector. In order to determine
what security measures are appropriate, Governments must assess the threat and
evaluate the risk of a potential unlawful acts.
5. That in response to major
disasters, states moved towards internationalization of the law, first by the
harmonization of local regulations, through bilateral treaties, agreements or
understandings among the leading maritime nations and finally, through intergovernmental
organizations that took over in order to encourage the adoption of
international instruments to regulate safety at sea and prevention of pollution
from ships.
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6.
Maritime Security aims to provide a standardized, consistent framework for
evaluating risk, enabling Governments to offset changes in threats with changes
in vulnerability for ships and port facilities through the determination of
appropriate security levels and corresponding security measures. It is noted
that the measures to enhance maritime security call for the establishment of
appropriate operational measures and procedures to prevent unauthorized access,
to prevent the introduction of unauthorized weapons, incendiary devices or
explosives. It is also to provide means to ensure efficient and effective
communications and to enhance awareness and vigilance. These measures have a
protective character and have been developed for the purpose of preventing the
occurrence of a security incident. The suppression, containment and control of
a situation in case of breach of security or of a security incident, have been
and remains a matter for the police and the security services of each State.
7. The ISPS Code provides a
standardized, consistent framework for managing risk and permitting the
meaningful exchange and evaluation of information between Contracting
Governments, companies, port facilities, and ships through determination of
appropriate security levels and corresponding security measures.
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Recommendations:
The necessity and convenience to
implement a Maritime Protection system in Timor-Leste in compliance with the
SOLAS Convention in general and specifically with the International Ship and
Port Facility Security Code from the International Maritime Organization, the
participants attending the World Maritime Day Conference in Timor-Leste
recommend:
1. The accession of the
following international conventions:
a.
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974;
b.
The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code);
c. The Suppression of Unlawful
Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation 1988 (SUA Convention, including
the 1988 and 2005 Protocols);
2.
The adoption of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS
Code). In essence, the Code regulates risk management activity to ensure ship
and port facilities security and to determine what security measures are
appropriate through a risk assessment made on individual case basis.
3.
The adoption of a Regulation for the Enhancement of Maritime Protection.
4.
To train and appoint Port Facility Security Officers for Timor-Leste’s ports
with international interface.
5. To develop and approve the
following:
a.
Port Facility Security Assessment for maritime ports of Timor-Leste.
b.
Port Facility Security Plan for ports of Timor-Leste with international
interface.
c. Ship Security Plan for
Berlin-Nakroma and to other Timor-Leste ships which transport passengers and/or
with international trade.
6. To grant Statements of
Compliance (SoC) to those ports which comply with the ISPS Code.
