The validity of Methodical recommendations on the registration of ships in bare-boat charter register is suspended

Regulation of the Federal Service for supervision in the sphere of transport dated July 25, 2005 № AH-157-р(фс), suspended the validity of regulation dated April 06, 2005 № AH-69-р(фс) of the Federal Service for supervision in the sphere of transport “On approval of the procedure of taking the decision on temporary concession of the right to ships registered in registers of foreign states to sail under the State Flag of the Russian Federation and decisions on temporary transfer of ships under the flag of a foreign state”.

In accordance with Regulation № AH-157-р(фс) the validity of the Methodical recommendations is suspended “in connection with a necessity of additional development of the Methodical recommendations”.

Actually, the existed version of the Methodical recommendations contained a lot of juridical contradictions as well as a great number of grammatical and stylistic mistakes. It was obvious that the document is “raw” and requires revision. First of all, the Methodical recommendations violated standards of the Merchant Marine Code of the Russian Federation on many occasions.

Russian shipowners, directly and through the Union of Russian shipowners, applied to the Federal Service for supervision in the sphere of transport for the necessity to make amendments to the Methodical recommendations in order to bring them into line with the effective legislation of the Russian Federation. We hope, that after reversion, the document will have the content which corresponds to the Russian and International Maritime Law and also will be structurized and readable.