Inland ECDIS: next steps Common Issues Meeting 2013-11-13

Zagreb

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Commission Regulation Inland ECDIS

Commission Regulation No. 909/2013The Commission Regulation is based on edtion 2.3 of the standard, which as also been adopted by CCNR (2011) and UNECE (2012) and is recommended by the Danube Commission (2011)Member states have to produce Inland ENCs in accordance with this standard within 30 months after the entry into force of the Commission Regulation (29.09.2013)

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Next steps: Encoding Guide

An updated version 2.3.6 of the Encoding Guide for Inland ENCs will be published based on the adopted Change Requests by the end of the year.

It will be fully compatible with edition 2.3 of the Product Specification and the Feature Catalogue

No change of the data exchange format, no software update necessary, just a recommendation of the Expert Group to the chart producers how to encode certain elements which are not mentioned in earlier versions; therefore no formalisation necessary

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Next steps: future editions

Italy has announced some Change Requests because of different fairway marks on the river Po

More than 30 Change Requests which can only become effective in a new edition of the standard have been adopted since 2010

China has also announced CRs for 2014

CCNR is discussing minimum requirements for information mode

A new edition 2.4 could be adopted by the expert group in autumn 2014

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Next steps: alignment with S-101

The current Inland ECDIS standard is based on the S-57 and S-52 standards of IHO for maritime navigation

IHO will replace these standards by the new S-101

Existing maritime ECDIS applications could theoretically be updated to read Inland ENCs, but most providers do not even offer such an update and everyone waits for S-101 (which will be open for other products)

Inland ECDIS should be aligned with S-101 to ensure full compatibility

Time planning: in use by 2018