[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR995.3]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 995_CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR DISTRIBUTORS OF NOAA HYDROGRAPHIC 

PRODUCTS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 995.3  Availability of other publications.



    (a) For further guidance you may obtain the following:

    (1) IEC 61174--The International Electrotechnical Commission 

identified and described the necessary performance tests and checks for 

an International Maritime Organization (IMO) compliant ECDIS. The IMO 

Performance Standards permit National Maritime Safety Administrations to 

consider ECDIS as the functional equivalent to charts required by 

Regulation V, Chapter 20 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention. IEC Publication 

61174, dated August 1998, can be purchased from the IEC Web site: http:/

/www.iec.ch.

    (2) IHO Special Publication S57--The IHO Transfer Standard for 

Hydrographic Data, edition 3.1, dated November 2000, describes the data 

structure and format to be used for the exchange of ENC data, product 

specification for the production of ENC data, and an updating profile. 

IHO S-57 documentation is available for free download at http://

www.iho.shom.fr. Send written requests



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to the International Hydrographic Bureau, 4 quai Antoine 1er, B.P. 445, 

MC 98011 MONACO CEDEX; telephone: (377) 93.10.81.00; e-mail: 

info@ihb.mc.

    (3) IHO Special Publication S58--The IHO Validation Checks for 

Hydrographic Data, edition 2.0, dated October 2003, describes the 

validation checks to be used on ENC data. This document was formally 

published as S-57 Appendix B.1, Annex C, but has been renamed to S-58 

due to the S-57 publication having been frozen (i.e. will not change) 

for a fixed time period. IHO S-58 documentation is available for free 

download at http://www.iho.shom.fr. Send written requests to the 

International Hydrographic Bureau, 4 quai Antoine 1er, B.P. 445, MC 

98011 MONACO CEDEX; telephone: (377) 93.10.81.00; e-mail: info@ihb.mc.

    (b) [Reserved]