Draft - shipping registration protocol

[Simone]

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[box]The World Assembly,

Recognizing its efforts to protect the seas (GAR#168, GAR#409, GAR#510, [my one]) and resolutions on labor rights and trade;

Concerned that the safety of ships travelling between WA states is not well protected, unlike civilian air traffic (GAR#342, GAR#464) thus potentially putting passengers and cargo at risk;

Anxious that lax regulations in one WA member state may affect other WA member states when ships traverse across WA member states or carry passengers and cargo from multiple WA member states;

Hereby enacts as follows:

1. For the purposes of this Resolution:
   
   • "WA vessel" means a ship traversing the waters of multiples WA states, and flying the flag of a Flag State;
     
   • "Flag state" means the WA member state for which a WA vessel is duly registered on its registry and/or asserted by the said WA member state to be subject to its jurisdiction; and
     
   • The World Assembly Nautical Commission (WANC) shall set forth, and update from time to time as it deems fit:
     
     • (I) regulations, (II) procedures and (III) recommendations on ;
       
     • A database for sharing latest research, advanced technologies and developed best practices between WA members, subject to regulations on copyright and intellectual property;
       
     • requirements to (re)confirm the safety and capability of a WA vessel prior to and for its final voyage to a WA yard for recycling;
       
     • requirements that flag state must ensure that its WA vessels carries sufficient insurance with an insurance underwriter that the flag state deems to be well capitalized, prior to setting off on its final voyage to a WA yard for recycling to compensate for any potential incidents en route, including any salvage and clean-up costs and compensation paid to any other WA states affected on this voyage;
       
     • requirements that any new WA vessels to compile and maintain (and for existing vessels, compile and maintain to the fullest extent possible) an updated inventory of potentially hazardous materials used in its construction, modification and/or repairs to aid the WA yard during breaking and recycling; and
       
     • templates for "Recycling Plans" for WA yards, to be updated from time to time, detailing how various kinds of WA vessels will be recycled in a safe and environmentally-friendly manner, including the safe handling of potentially hazardous materials.
   • The competent authorities of a flag state are required to ensure compliance with WANC rules for WA vessels travelling under its own flag.
     
   • Flag states may not permit the re-registration of a WA vessel to a non-WA member state, or abandon its claims to subject a particular vessel to its jurisdiction thereof, if the competent authority of the flag state independently determine after due process that the re-registration is primarily for the purpose of circumventing the aforesaid WANC rules.
     
     Notes, for the avoidance of doubt, that the said WANC regulations shall not apply to WA vessels that exclusively traverse the waters of its flag state.[/box]