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Domestic Passenger Ships - Equivalent Standards

This consultation seeks comments on a new Merchant Shipping Notice on the Domestic Passenger Ships – Equivalent Standards. This Merchant Shipping Notice provides details of technical provisions that have been accepted by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the European Commission as providing an equivalent level of safety to the statutory requirements for passenger ships on domestic voyages, in accordance with Article 9 of European Council Directive 2009/45.  

The MSN sets out the equivalence and phase-in requirements within context of the above Directive.  

The consultation will last a period of 12 weeks and all comments should be provided in writing please by post, fax or email to:

David Wagstaff

Technical Support team

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Bay 2/25, Spring Place

105 Commercial Road

Southampton SO15 1EG

Fax:   023 8032 9104

Email: David.Wagstaff@mcg.gov.uk

to arrive no later than 10 February 2011

Consultation Documents

consultation_letter_.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF Document Icon (48KB)

ec_directive_exemptions_msn.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF Document Icon (78 KB)

schedule_consultation.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF Document Icon (86 KB)

Responses, and any comments that the MCA has on them, will be published on the website as soon as possible after the consultation period has finished.  The MSN will be issued  which will be available electronically on the MCA website.

Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be published or disclosed in accordance with the access to information regimes.  These are primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

If you would like the information that you provide to be treated as confidential please be aware that, under the FOIA, there is a statutory Code of Practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals, amongst other things, with obligations of confidence.  In view of this it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential.  If we receive a request for disclosure of the information we will take full account of your explanation, but we cannot give assurances that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances.  An automated confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the MCA.

The MCA will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act and in the majority of circumstances this will mean that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties.

This consultation is being conducted in accordance with Cabinet Office Code of Practice on Written Consultations.  Should you have any comments or complaints about how this consultation has been conducted please direct them to the MCA’s Consultation Co-ordinator:

Consultation Co-ordinator

Office of the Chief Executive

MCA

Bay 3/29, Spring Place

105 Commercial Road

Southampton

SO15 1EG

consultation.coordinator@mcga.gov.uk

The customer feedback form may be downloaded here. Feedback form

List of Consultees

Domestic Passenger Ship Steering Group (An industry liaison group comprising of domestic passenger ship operators)

High Speed Craft Advisory Group

British Chamber of Shipping

UK Authorised Classification Societies: American Bureau of Shipping; Bureau Veritas; ClassNK; Det Norske Veritas; Germanischer Lloyd; Lloyds Register  and RINA

British Category One Ship Registries: Caymen Islands; Gibralter; British Virgin Islands; Isle of Man and Bermuda

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