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Done at London, this seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and ninety five.

Annex

Chapter I

General provisions

Regulation 1

Definitions

For the purpose of this annex the following definitions apply.

1 – «Regulations» means regulations contained in the annex to the Convention.

2 – «Approved» means approved by the Party in accordance with the regulations.

3 – «Skipper» means the person having command of a fishing vessel.

4 – «Officer» means a member of the crew, other than the skipper, designated as such by national law or

regulations or, in the absence of such designation, by collective agreement or custom.

5 – «Officer in charge of a navigational watch» means an officer qualified in accordance with regulation II/2 or

II/4 of this Convention.

6 – «Engineer officer» means an officer qualified in accordance with regulation II/5 of this Convention.

7 – «Chief engineer officer» means the senior engineer officer responsible for the mechanical propulsion and

operation and maintenance of mechanical and electrical installations of the vessel.

8 – «Second engineer officer» means the engineer officer next in rank to the chief engineer officer and upon

whom the responsibility for the mechanical propulsion and the operation and maintenance of the mechanical and

electrical installations of the vessel will fall in the event of the incapacity of the chief engineer officer.

9 – «Radio operator» means a person holding an appropriate certificate issued or recognized by an

Administration under the provisions of the Radio Regulations.

10 – «Radio Regulations» means the Radio Regulations annexed to, or regarded as being annexed to, the

most recent International Telecommunication Convention which may be in force at any time.

11 – «1978 STCW Convention» means the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification

and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended.

12 – «1993 Torremolinos Protocol» means the Torremolinos Protocol of 1993 relating to the Torremolinos

International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels, 1977.

13 – «Propulsion power» means the total maximum continuous rated output power in kilowatts of all the

vessel’s main propulsion machinery which appears on the vessel’s certificate of registry or other official

document.

14 – «Limited waters» means those waters in the vicinity of a Party as defined by its Administration within

which a degree of safety is considered to exist which enables the standards of qualification and certification for

skippers and officers of fishing vessels to be set at a lower level than for service outside the defined limits. In

determining the extent of limited waters the Administration shall take into consideration the guidelines developed

by the Organization.

15 – «Unlimited waters» means waters beyond limited waters.

16 – «Length (L)» shall be taken as 96 per cent of the total length on a waterline at 85 per cent of the least

moulded depth measured from the keel line, or as the length from the foreside of the stem to the axis of the

rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In vessels designed with rake of keel the waterline on which this

length is measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline.

17 – «Moulded depth» is the vertical distance measured from the keel line to the top of the working deck beam

at side.

Regulation 2

Application

The Administration of a Party, if it considers it unreasonable or impracticable to apply the full requirements of