THE CONFERENCE,
HAVING ADOPTED the 1995 amendments to the International Convention
on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
(STCW), 1978,
RECOGNIZING the significant contribution
made through the publication by the International Maritime Organization
of model courses, which have provided core curricula based on the
minimum requirements of the STCW Convention provisions adopted in
1978,
APPRECIATING that the model courses have thereby
assisted many training institutions to improve the quality of the
training they provide and have been used to improve procedures for
assessing competency,
DESIRING to achieve greater uniformity
in the application of the training and assessment provisions of the
STCW Convention, as amended,
INVITES:
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.1 the Organization to take steps to revise and
update those model courses which provide guidance on the implementation
of the training and assessment provisions of the STCW Convention,
as amended; and
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.2 Governments to provide funding for, and otherwise
assist in, the revision and updating of such model courses.