1.1 Purpose and responsibility
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1.1 Purpose and responsibility

  1.1.1 The purpose of these Guidelines is to recommend design criteria, necessary equipment, operating requirements, and a test and documentation system for dynamic positioning systems to reduce the risk to personnel, the vessel, other vessels or structures, sub-sea installations and the environment while performing operations under dynamic positioning control.

  1.1.2 The responsibility for ensuring that the provisions of the Guidelines are complied with rests with the owner of the DP-vessel.

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