Transcript RAINWAT

Regional Arrangement on the
Radiocommunication Service for Inland
Waterways (RAINWAT)
Sergey Tzarnakliyski
Danube Commission, Budapest
Budapest, September 17th, 2013
The Regional Arrangement on the Radiocommunication
Service for Inland Waterways was signed in Bucharest on 18
April 2012.
It was concluded between the 17 Administrations of Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France,
Germany, Hungary, Luxemburg, Moldova, Montenegro, the
Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic
and Switzerland.
The Agreement supersedes the Regional Arrangement
concerning the radiotelephone service on Inland Waterways,
concluded in Basel on 6 April 2000.
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The Agreement was concluded in order to implement
common safety principles and rules for people and goods
on inland waterways, acknowledging that the
harmonization of the radiocommunication service will:
 contribute to safer navigation
 facilitate more efficient and effective use of the radio
spectrum
 contribute to more efficient, economical and smooth
execution of ship management
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The
Agreement,
which
regulates
the
radio
communication service for Inland Waterways within the
territory of the signatory States is concluded in
accordance with Article 6 of the Radio Regulations of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Structure of the Agreement
The Agreement is organized in 4 Chapters and 7 Annexes.
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Chapter I – Terminology
The Chapter contains definitions of some of the terms
used in the text of the Agreement and references to the
definitions adopted by the ITU.
Below is a brief description of the key terms
1. Radiotelephone service and Automatic Transmitter
Identification System (ATIS)
The radiotelephone service on Inland Waterways
enables the establishment of radiocommunications for
specific purposes by using agreed channels and an
agreed operational procedure (service categories)
using ATIS.
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Service categories on Inland Waterways:
 Ship-to-ship - Radiocommunication between ship stations.
 Nautical information - Radiocommunication between ship
stations and stations of the competent authorities for the
operational services on Inland Waterways. The stations of the
above-mentioned authorities can be either land stations or mobile
stations.
 Ship-to-port authorities - Radiocommunication between ship
stations and stations of the competent authorities for the
operational services in Inland Ports. The stations of the abovementioned authorities shall be preferably land stations.
 On board communications - Internal radiocommunication on
board of a ship or radiocommunication within a group of vessels
being towed or pushed, as well as for line handling and mooring
instructions.
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2. Radar
Radar is part of the radionavigation service intended
for the benefit and for the safe operation of ships
3. Inland Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Inland AIS enables the establishment of vessels’ track
and tracing systems for specific purposes by using
agreed channels and an agreed operational procedure.
4. Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI)
An MMSI is mandatory for the usage of Inland AIS. For
ships visiting the Inland Waterways covered by the
provisions of this Arrangement, an MMSI is required to
generate their individual ATIS code.
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5. Administrative Contact Points
Persons designated by the contracting administrations for
all questions concerning the radiocommunication service
on Inland waterways.
6. Ships identification database Contact Points
Persons designated by the contracting administrations
competent for all questions concerning the identification of
the ships under their jurisdiction.
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Chapter II – General provisions for the operation of the
service
The Chapter contains provisions related to:
 Administrative provisions for ship stations (further detailed
in Annex 1 “Administrative provisions for ship stations ”)
 Use of frequencies (further detailed in Annex 2 “Tables of
channels, transmitting frequencies and service categories
for Inland Waterways” )
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Chapter II – General provisions for the operation of
the service (cont’d)
 Operational requirements and technical requirements of
the radio equipment on board ships (further detailed in
Annex 3 “Operational and technical requirements of the
equipment” )
 Operating Procedures (further detailed in Annex 4
“Provisions concerning the operating procedures” )
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Chapter III – Application of the Agreement
The Chapter contains provisions related to:
 Administrative Handling of the Arrangement and
competences of the Committee RAINWAT (regulates the
establishment, composition and functions of the Committee
RAINWAT, which primary task is to administer, harmonize
and optimize the Agreement, maintain the web-site. The
Rules of Procedures of the Committee is given at Annex 7)
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Chapter III – Application of the Agreement (cont’d)
 Execution of the Arrangement (refers to the obligations
of the administrations to adopt and apply the provisions
of the Arrangement, its Annexes and Resolutions, and as
far as possible its Recommendations)
 Accession to the Arrangement (provides the rules and
procedures for accession of administrations which are
not signatories of the Agreement)
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Chapter III – Application of the Agreement (cont’d)
 Denunciation of the Arrangement (provides the rules
and procedures for denunciation of the Agreement by
administrations)
 Coordination of frequency assignments (assignment
and coordination of frequencies to be done according to
the HCM agreement or Recommendation T/R 25-08 of
CEPT or bi- or multilateral agreements)
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Chapter III – Application of the Agreement (cont’d)
 Notification
of this Arrangement to the ITU and
information of other organizations (called for by the
provisions of Article 6 of the Radio Regulations of the
ITU. Information to be provided on the conclusion,
content and parties to the Agreement)
Chapter IV – Final provisions
Regulates the date of entry into force of the Arrangement
(18 April 2012) and the invalidation of the Basel
Agreement of 6 April 2000.
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Annex I – administrative provisions for ship stations
Contains provisions and requirements related to:
 Mandatory licensing of the ship station (SSL)
 Qualification and certification of the ship station
operator
 Ship station documents
 Inspection of the ship station by the competent
authorities issuing the SSL and in the states which the
ship visits (incl. corrective measures and mandatory
notifications)
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Annex I – administrative provisions for ship stations
(cont’d)
 Identification of the ship station (call sign, official name
of the ship, ATIS code and, when fitted with AIS
equipment -MMSI).
The official name of the ship shall be used in service
categories:
 ship-to-ship,
 nautical information
 ship-to-port authorities.
 Structure of the ATIS Code
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Annex 1 – administrative provisions for ship stations
(cont’d)
 MANDATORY USE OF ATIS FOR ALL SHIPS VISITING
THE INLAND WATERWAYS COVERED
PROVISIONS OF THE ARRANGEMENT
BY
THE
 It is the responsibility of the shipowners to equip their ships
with ATIS-capable equipment and a valid ATIS code.
NOTE: Annexes 2 and 3 are not dealt with due to their very
technical nature
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Annex 4 – Provisions concerning the operating
procedures
The general radiotelephone procedure for the Maritime
Mobile Service provided in the Radio Regulations (Article
57) applies to radiotelephone communications and test
transmissions of the radiotelephone service on Inland
Waterways
Special provisions:
 Receipt of messages - Ship stations are obliged to
acknowledge the receipt of a message addressed to them
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Annex 4 – Provisions concerning the operating
procedures (cont’d)
 Languages to be used
 between ship and land stations - the language of the
country of the land station;
 between ship stations - the language of the country in
which the vessels sail or as required by Police
Navigation Regulations
 After 1 February 2022 - primarily English language for
service categories ship-to-port authorities and ship-to–
ship for navigational purposes
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Annex 4 – Provisions concerning the operating
procedures (cont’d)
Message content - In the service categories ship-to-ship,
nautical information and ship-to-port authorities, the
transmission of messages shall deal exclusively with the
safety of human life, movement and the safety of ships
except on the ship-to-ship channels specially defined for
the use for communications with a social character.
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Annex 5 – Provisions for the acquisition, issue and
mutual recognition of radio operator's
certificates
Procedure to issue a radio operator's certificate:
Minimum knowledge to be demonstrated in an
examination (Recommendation No. 3) about :
 the provisions concerning the radiotelephone service
on Inland Waterways;
 operation of a VHF station;
 radiocommunication procedures for the safety of
navigation on Inland Waterways;
 transmission and reception of messages;
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Annex 6 – Ships identification database
 A ships identification database, containing all call signs,
official names of ships, ATIS codes and MMSI of the
signatories of the Agreement has been established.
 By using the call sign or the official name of the ship or
the ATIS code or the MMSI it is possible to retrieve
additional information about the inland waterway ship
concerned.
 The database and a search engine can be found on the
Committee RAINWAT website especially provided to that
end.
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Annex 6 – Ships identification database (cont’d)
 All contracting Administrations forward electronically their
recent database to the webmaster, within the first 5
business days of each month.
 Between the 6th and 10th business day of each month
the webmaster updates the database.
 The ships identification database is only accessible by
means of a user name and a password
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Annex 7 – Rules of procedures
The Annex contents rules of procedures about:
 Revision of the Arrangement
 Designation of the Chairperson and the vicechairperson
 Administrative handling
 Committee RAINWAT website
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Additionally the Committee RAINWAT adopted 2
Resolutions and 3 Recommendations related to the
implementation of the Agreement.
Resolution №1 resolves that:
 the Central Commission for the navigation of the Rhine
(CCNR) and the Danube Commission (DC) shall prepare
a Guide concerning radiotelephone service on Inland
Waterways according to an uniform model and publish it;
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Resolution №1 (cont’d)
 the competent Administrations shall submit to the
CCNR and the DC the necessary contributions and
supplements to the Guide concerning the
radiotelephone service on Inland Waterways;
 Administrations shall take the necessary steps that the
Guide is carried on board ships;
 the contracting Administrations shall publish information
supplementing the Guide concerning the radiotelephone
service on Inland Waterways in appropriate form.
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Resolution №2 Mutual recognition of type approvals
of radio equipment covered by this arrangement
According to the Resolution the Administrations
shall mutually recognize their recognized or approved
types of equipment if the operational and technical
characteristics of the equipment concerned are in
accordance with this Arrangement or the established
internationally applicable standards
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Recommendations:
 Recommendation №1 calls for reduction of national
exceptions;
 Recommendation №2 invites contracting administrations
to:
 provide and facilitate the exchange of information on
Inland Waterway ships covered by the Regional
Arrangement;
 support the development of a common online
database for Inland Waterway ships containing ship
names, ATIS code and MMSI.
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Recommendations (cont’d):
Recommendation № 3 contains a harmonized
examination syllabus of the radio operators’ certificates
for the radiotelephone service on inland waterways and
recommends that Administrations issue an operator’s
certificate for the Radiotelephone Service on Inland
Waterways to candidates who have successfully passed
an examination based on the syllabus.
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Thank you for your attention!
Sergey TZARNAKLIYSKI
Counsellor for Technical Issues
Secretariat of the Danube Commission
[email protected]
H-1068 Budapest
Benczur utca 25
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