1 The Facilitation Committee at its thirtieth
session (27 to 31 January 2003), and the Maritime Safety Committee
at its seventy-seventh session (28 May to 6 June 2003), recognizing
the importance and the need for the development of guidance for minimum
training and education requirements for mooring personnel, has initiated
work on this item.
2 Recognizing also that certain Member Governments,
port authorities and industry associations may already have such standards
in place, and in order to avoid duplication of work Member Governments
and Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Status are invited
to submit these to the co-ordinatorfootnote of
the Correspondence group by the end of August 2003.