ADOPTED: Done at Paris, on 26 January 1982

REFERENCE: MOU 1982

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 6 August 1982

DEPOSITARY: Secretariat, MOU

SECRETARY: Directorate-General for Freight Transport, The Netherlands

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE AND ACCESSION

Section VIII.II

A Maritime Authority of another State may, with the consent of the Authorities participating in the Memorandum, adhere to the Memorandum. For such an Authority the Memorandum will take effect upon such date as may be mutually agreed.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Section VIII.III

When the Memorandum takes effect, it will supersede the “Memorandum of Understanding between Certain Maritime Authorities on the Maintenance of Standards on Merchant Ships”, signed at The Hague on 2 March 1978.

Section VIII.IV

The Memorandum will take effect on 1 July 1982.

AMENDMENTS

Section VII

Section VII.I

Any Authority may propose amendments to the Memorandum.

Section VII.II

In the case of proposed amendments to sections of the Memorandum the following procedure will apply:

• (a) the proposed amendment will be submitted through the secretariat for consideration by the Committee;
• (b) amendments will be adopted by a two-thirds majority of the representatives of the Authorities present and voting in the Committee. If so adopted an amendment will be communicated by the Secretariat to the Authorities for acceptance;
• (c) an amendment will be deemed to have been accepted either at the end of a period of six months after adoption by the representatives of the Authorities in the Committee or at the end of any different period determined unanimously by the representatives of the Authorities in the Committee at the time of adoption, unless within the relevant period an objection is communicated to the Secretariat by an Authority;
• (d) an amendment will take effect sixty days after it has been accepted or at the end of any different period determined unanimously by the representatives of the Authorities in the Committee.

Section VII.III

In the case of proposed amendments to Annexes of the Memorandum the following procedure will apply:

• (a) the proposed amendment will be submitted through the Secretariat for consideration by the Authorities;
• (b) the amendment will be deemed to have been accepted at the end of a period of three months from the date on which it has been communicated by the Secretariat unless an Authority requests in writing that the amendment should be considered by the Committee. In the latter case the procedure specified in VII.II will apply;
• (c) the amendment will take effect sixty days after it has been accepted or at the end of any different period determined unanimously by the Authorities.