Tripartite MeetingSeptember 2006

Seoul, Korea

Item B12.

CSR Maintenance Procedures -

feedback and commentary mechanisms on Q&As, CIs and Rule Change Proposals

Gil-Yong HanResponse Manager

IACS Permanent Secretariat

CSR Maintenance Procedures - feedback and commentary mechanisms on Q&As, CIs and Rule Change

Proposals

Contents

1 IACS meetings with Industry

2. CSR Maintenance Procedures

2.1 Organization/function

2.2 IACS CSR Knowledge Center

2.3 Q&As and CIs

2.4 Rule Changes Proposals(RCP)

3 CSR Cross Check (introduction only)

4 Summary

1.IACS meetings with Industry

IACSIndustry (ICS, BIMCO,

INTERTANKO,INTERCARGO, etc)

1. IACS regular meetings with Industry

- CSR Rule Change Proposals- IACS activities on CSR issues

2. IACS publishes FAQs + Answers on the web site

2. CSR Maintenance Procedures

1. IACS PR 32

- IACS Procedural Requirement No.32 defines ‘CSR Maintenance Procedures’.

- Became effective on 1 August 2006.

2. Objective

- To Facilitate a consistent and uniform application of IACS CSR.

3. Scope of the Maintenance Procedures

- Questions and Answers (Q&A) regarding CSR

- Common Interpretations (CI) on CSR

- Rule Change Proposals (RCP)

2.1 Organization/function

Council

CSR Secretariat

SG/CSR [GPG]

Hull Panel

- Possess and provide technical expertise

- Prepare technical answers/interpretations

- Reply to the Questions

- Prepare/review Rule Change Proposals (RCP).

CSRPT 2(Tanker)

CSRPT 1(Bulk)

Hull Panel:

- Review technical answers

- Review Rule Change Proposals

- Resolve controversial technical issues

- Feedback CIs to all IACS Members

- Advise Council on CSR issues

- Track the CSR maintenance process

- Adoption of amendments to CSR

- Decision on policy & controversial issues.

CSR Secretariat:

- Day-to-day operation of IACS CSR DB

- Monitor the reply schedule

- Publish FAQs / CSR

- Report to Council and SG/CSR

2.2 IACS CSR Knowledge Centre

1. Objective

- To facilitate the CSR maintenance process in an effective and transparent manner.

2. Function

- On-line database with interactive dialogue facility.

- KC = Q&As + CIs + RCPs.

- IACS Members access the KC to search agreed Q&As and CIs.

3. Operation

- The IACS KC started to offer its services on 1 Aug 2006.

2.2 IACS CSR Knowledge Centre

2.3 Q&As and CIs

1. Objectives

- (Q&A) Questions are answered in a consistent and timely manner by the relevant group.

- (Q&A) The so prepared answers are fed back to Members and referenced where relevant.

- (CI) Members’ requests for Common Interpretations (CI) are dealt with in a consistent and timely manner by the relevant group.

- (CI) The so developed CIs are uniformly applied by Members.

2. Procedures - PR 32

2.1 In general, IACS CSR PTs prepare answers / CIs within ten (10) working days.

2.2 CSR Secretariat publishes FAQs & Answers on its web.

2.4 Rule Change Proposals (RCP)

1. RCP Procedures (PR 32)

1.1 Project Teams - Draft and review RCP.

1.2 Hull Panel - Review and approve RCP

1.3 IACS Members’ Technical Committees

- Review and approve RCP.

- Comments are sent to PTs.

1.4 Council adopts RCs (Rule Changes).

2. Rule Changes – time table

2.1 Final Rule Changes (adopted by IACS Council) :

- Published once a year on 1st Jan; and

- Enter into force from the following 1 July.

2.2 In case of urgent need to make rule changes / corrections:

- Rule Change Notice or Corrigenda issued.

2.4 Rule Change Proposals (RCP)

3. CSR Cross-Check

1. Objective

To ensure that IACS Members approve the same set of drawings with the same results of required scantlings.

2. Hull Panel Project Team 3 ‘FEA Cross Check’

Consistent implementation of FEA requirements of the two sets of CSR.

3. Hull Panel Project Team 4 ‘Rules Cross Check’

Cross-check the prescriptive requirements (rule required scantlings) of the 2 sets of CSRs.

Work is under progress within the Hull Panel.

4. Summary

1. IACS Procedural Requirement 32 (CSR Maintenance) defines Procedures for dealing with Q&As, CIs and Rule Change Proposals;

2. IACS PR 32 defines the procedures and time frame for CSR amendments / publication;

3. IACS CSR KC is a tool to support the IACS organization in implementing PR 32;

4. IACS Permanent Secretariat will publish FAQs and Answers on its web site on a regular basis; and

5. To further facilitate communication and transparency, IACS plans to meet with Industry Associations regularly to brief industry of the CSR maintenance and harmonization activities.

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Reference 1: Q&As and CIs – IACS members

IACS Member: a single point of contact PT: Project Team (PT 1: 3 Bulker Members + 1 Tanker Member) (PT 2: 3 Tanker Members + 1 Bulker Member)

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Each arrow indicates entry into CSR DB

Permsec facilitates

•Project Teams are authorized to make decisions and reply to the questions, except

for cases where unanimous agreement is not reached.

Reference 2: Q&As and CIs - Industry/Stakeholders

PT: Project Team (dedicated email account)

Industry

Chair/ Perm Sec

PTCouncil

TechnicalPolicy

SG/CSR

Question

Answer

Each arrow indicates entry into CSR DB

Permsec facilitates

Reference 3: Rule Changes Proposals (RCP)

PT

RCP

HP-3/4 majority decision

IACS MembersTC

TC comments

PT

review

HPFinalRCP

Council

IACS Member

IACS Member: a single point of contact PT: Project TeamRCP: Rule Change ProposalHP: Hull Panel

Entry into Force

Adoption

Request or RCP

Response to comments

Each arrow indicates entry into CSR DB

Permsec facilitates