. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/DNK/10
3 May 2002
(02-2525)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   DENMARK
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Danish Maritime Authority
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:           
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Bridge Navigational
Watch Alarm System (BNWAS) in cargo ships, passenger ships engaged on international
voyages and fishing vessels.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   199923846 Notice B
from the Danish Maritime Authority, Technical Regulation on construction and equipment
etc., Chapter V:  Addition to regulation 19.1.1, New regulation 19.2.4. and Newregulation 19.7.
Notice E from the Danish Maritime Authority, Technical Regulation on construction and
equipment etc., Chapter X:  New regulation 3.18 (3 pages, in Danish)
6. Description of content:   The regulation shall ensure the vigilance of the responsible officer
of the bridge watch when the ship is at sea by requiring that the corresponding ships are
equipped with a Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS) in compliance with
the coming IMO performance standard.  The BNWAS shall ensure that an alarm is activated
if no activity is recorded on the bridge during a predefined time-period.  In such cases the
BNWAS will transfer a corresponding alarm to a back-up officer and finally to the entirecrew accommodation.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Following an investigation of number of marine accidents involving Danish ships the
Danish Maritime Authority concluded that several of these incidents could have been
avoided if systems to detect bridge activity and operator disability had been available and
used.  This regulation shall ensure that such alarms are mandatory for the ships concerned.
8. Relevant documents:           
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }1 March 2003G/TBT/N/DNK/10
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10. Final date for comments:   1 July 2002
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Dansk Standard
Kollegievej 6
2920 Charlottenlund