It is recognised that competent Deep-Sea Pilots can make an effective contribution to the safety of navigation in the confined and busy waters of the Baltic Sea, North Sea, English Channel and Skagerrak.
Having due regard of the importance to safeguard both shipping and the environment, EMPA urges that the governments of the states bordering the waters aforementioned take the necessary action through the media of IMO and/or the EEC to recommend the use of adequately qualified Deep-Sea Pilots on specified vessels.
EMPA recommends that the vessels so specified should be:
1. All vessels of 35,000 GRT and above
2. All vessels of 10,000 GRT and above carrying toxic cargoes (Cargoes in bulk and bearing IMO classification)
An adequately qualified Deep-Sea Pilot shall mean a pilot as described in IMO Resolution A480 (XII) and A486 (XII) and in EEC Directives 79/115/EEC.
AGM - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, April, 1985