Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS)

PURPOSE : to improve the implementation of the pertinent Community legislation on maritime safety, protection of marine environment and shipboard living and working conditions (refer equally to COD/2000/0237). CONTENT : the proposed regulation aims to set up the committee on safe seas and lay down the procedures governing its operation and scope. The proposal also provides for amending existing regulations in the field of maritime safety, both to take account of the creation of the committee on safe seas and to facilitate their subsequent updating in the light of developments in the international legislation on maritime safety.�