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the environment.

2 – In the event that deficiencies are found under paragraph 1, the officer carrying out the control shall forthwith

inform, in writing, the skipper of the vessel and the Administration, so that appropriate action may be taken. Such

notification shall specify the details of the deficiencies found and the grounds on which the Party determines that

these deficiencies pose a danger to persons, property or the environment.

3 – Deficiencies which may be deemed to pose a danger to persons, property or the environment include the

following:

.1 - Failure of persons, required to hold a certificate, to have an appropriate certificate or dispensation;

.2 - Failure of navigational or engineering watch arrangements to conform to the requirements specified for

the vessel by the Administration;

.3 - Absence in a watch of a person qualified to operate equipment essential to safe navigation, safety

radiocommunications or the prevention of pollution; or

.4 - Inability to provide rested persons for the first watch at the commencement of a voyage, and for

subsequent relieving watches.

Regulation 5

Communication of information

1 – The Secretary-General shall, on request, provide Parties with any information communicated to him under

article 4.

2 – A Party which fails to communicate information required by article 4 within twenty-four months after the

date of entry into force of the Convention for a Party shall not be entitled to claim the privileges of this Convention

until such time as the information has been received by the Secretary-General.

Regulation 6

Administration of certification arrangements

1 – Each Party undertakes to establish and maintain a means of ensuring that programmes incorporating

such instruction and practical training as is necessary to achieve the competency standards are regularly

monitored to ensure their effectiveness.

2 – Each Party undertakes, to the extent practicable, to maintain a register or registers of all certificates and

endorsements specified in regulations 3 and II/1 to II/6 which are issued, have expired, or have been revalidated,

reported lost, suspended or cancelled, and of dispensations issued, and provide information on the status of such

certificates, endorsements and dispensations when so requested by another Party.

Regulation 7

Recognition of certificates

1 – Each Administration shall ensure, in order to recognize, by endorsement in accordance with regulation 3,

a certificate issued by or under the authority of another Party, that the requirements for standards of competence,

as well as the issue and endorsement of certificates by that Party, are fully complied with.

2 – Certificates issued by or under the authority of a non-Party shall not be recognized.

3 – Notwithstanding the requirement of paragraph 1 of this regulation and paragraph 5 of regulation 3, an

Administration may, if circumstances require, allow a person to serve for a period not exceeding three months on

board a vessel entitled to fly its flag while holding an appropriate and valid certificate issued by another Party

without it being endorsed as required by paragraph 5 of regulation 3 provided that documented proof is made

available that application for an endorsement has been submitted to the Administration.

Regulation 8

Transitional provisions

1 – A certificate of competency or of service in a capacity for which this Convention requires a certificate and