FLAG STATE CONTROL

The responsibility for ensuring the compliance with the requirements laid down in the international maritime conventions belongs to the Flag State.

The new regime of FSC inspections was laid on discovering the deficiencies which could lead to ship's detentions in foreign ports, due to a sub-standard condition, the final goal being the prevention of such detentions and consequently the decreasing of the detention rate.

RNA has concentrated its efforts in adopting and implementing into the national legislation of the acquis communautaire in the field of maritime safety and security. As a result, FSC procedures and a new FSC Manual were issued.

By the Minister of Transports, Constructions and Tourism Order No.2/2004 regarding the setting-up of some measures for the improvement of the safety of navigation, ships older than 20 years are no more accepted to be registered under the Romanian flag.

Moreover, on the 1st of July 2004, the RNA has reported to IMO that the entire provisions of ISPS Code were implemented to all Romanian flagged vessels. RNA is continuously monitoring all the requirements of the ISPS Code regarding the security aspects, of the Romanian and foreign vessels as well.

Main task      

To eliminate all Romanian sub-standard vessels from operation in order to decrease the detention rate of Romanian flagged vessels down to at least EU average

Achievements

In this respect, taking into account the commercial schedule, it was decided that all Romanian ships to be Flag State Control inspected whether they are calling Romanian or foreign ports.

RNA focused on the established objective mainly to reduce the detention rate below 5%. As a result by the end of 2005 the detention rate was 4,5 %.

Due to significant progresses on average detention rate, based on a three years period of time, the Romanian flag passed from black to grey list of Paris MoU and leading to white list by the end of 2006.

Following the good results of the standards achieved from Romanian flagged vessels and the overall improvements within Romanian Naval Authority, in may 2005 at the 38th Meeting of Paris MoU Committee held in Helsinky, Finland, by unanimous decision Romania was accepted as cooperative member state within this memorandum.

Taking into consideration the overall progresses, RNA decided, at the beginning of 2006, to apply to Paris MoU on PSC as a full member of this organization.

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