This document has been superseded by MSC.1/Circ.1646
1 The Facilitation Committee, at its forty-first session, the Marine Environment
Protection Committee, at its seventieth session, the Maritime Safety Committee, at
its ninety-seventh session, and the Legal Committee, at its one hundred and fourth
session, approved the List of certificates and documents required to be carried on
board ships, 2017, as set out in the annex.
2 This work was carried out in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the
annex to the FAL Convention concerning formalities required of shipowners by public
authorities on the arrival, stay and departure of ships. It is reiterated that these
provisions should not be read as precluding a requirement for the presentation for
inspection by the appropriate authorities of certificates and other documents
carried by the ship pertaining to its registry, measurement, safety, manning,
classification and other related matters.
3 Since the issuance of FAL.2/Circ.127-MEPC/Circ.817-MSC/Circ.1462, several
instruments addressed in that circular have been amended. New instruments have been
added, including the International Convention for the Control and Management of
Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 and Nairobi International Convention on the
Removal of Wrecks, 2007. Further, pursuant to a decision of the Legal Committee
taken at its 103rd session, this document is now also a LEG circular.
4 This circular lists only the certificates and documents that are required under IMO
instruments and it does not include certificates or documents required by other
international organizations or governmental authorities.
5 This circular should not be used in the context of port State control inspections
for which convention requirements should be referred to.
6 Member Governments are invited to note the information provided in the annex and
take action as appropriate.
7 This circular supersedes FAL.2/Circ.127-MEPC/Circ.817-MSC/Circ.1462.