Ships conducting ballast water management must discharge less than 10 viable organisms per cubic metre greater than or equal to 50 micrometres in minimum dimension and less than 10 viable organisms per millilitre less than 50 micrometres in minimum dimension and greater than or equal to 10 micrometres in minimum dimension; and discharge of the indicator microbes (bacteria) must not exceed the specified concentrations.

Organisations meeting the minimum standards in IMO Resolution A. 739(18) to which flag States may delegate their survey and certification functions under SOLAS and other conventions. They are generally classification societies. ROs must operate according to specifications in resolution A. 789(19).

A partial loss of property exposed to marine perils.

No.

Paragraph 1.4. requires the Company to develop, implement and maintain an SMS which includes procedures for management reviews.

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No. The employer must ensure that suitable personal protective equipment is provided free of charge unless the equipment is not exclusive to the work place.

The agreement of both parties that their obligations will be waived, e. g. where a shipowner and a charterer mutually agree to cancel a charter because of non­-availability of cargo.

Seafarers employed or engaged in any capacity on board ship on the business of that ship as part of the ship's complement with designated safety or pollution prevention duties. The training must be received before being assigned to any shipboard duties. (STCW Code 2010, Section A-VI/1.2)

The Merchant Shipping (Ships' Doctors) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/1803), which implement a requirement, relating to a ship's doctor, of Council Directive 92/29/EEC. Guidance on their requirements is in M.1627.

Summary conviction is a conviction by magistrates in England or Wales, or by a sheriff in Scotland, following a trial in a lower court using summary procedure. 

Yes. 

Any of the following EC Notified Bodies: (1) Lloyd's Register; (2) ABS Europe Ltd; (3) QINETIQ Ltd; (4) QINETIQ Portland; 95) BSi; and (6) Warrington Certification Ltd.

Hull and machinery underwriters may consider the shipowners to be in breach of their cover. P&I cover would probably also be prejudiced.

A system for the automatic and regular transmission of identification and position data by ships on international voyages which may be received for security and other purposes by the flag State Administration and, subject to certain restrictions, by other SOLAS Contracting States.