2.5.1 Certain areas of operation may require compliance or demonstration of
equivalence with National Authority requirements. Table 6.2.2 Comparison of ice
standards gives the equivalence of
National Authority requirements.
2.5.2 The standards of ice strengthening required by the Rules have been
accepted by the Finnish and Swedish Boards of Navigation as being such as to warrant
assignment of the Ice Classes given in Table 6.2.2 Comparison of ice
standards.
2.5.3 Units intending to navigate in the Canadian Arctic must comply with the
Canadian Arctic Shipping Pollution Prevention Regulations established by the
Consolidated Regulations of Canada, 1978, Chapter 353, in respect of which Lloyd’s
Register is authorised to issue Arctic Pollution Prevention Certificates.