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Our regulatory plan provides details of planned changes to our regulatory instruments such as Marine orders and the National Standard for Commercial Vessels, to make it easier for business and the community to take part in the development of those instruments.
In 2015-16 we continued to progress many initiatives across our areas of operation: vessel and seafarer safety, search and rescue, marine environment protection, and navigation safety.
Over 2016–17 AMSA continued to prepare to take on full service delivery of the national system for domestic commercial vessels. A November 2016 decision from Australian governments to defer commencement of full service delivery until 1 July 2018 provided an opportunity to enhance our original approach.
Reminding all ship owners, ship operators and masters of the requirements for the safe carriage of ammonium nitrate on board ships with a particular emphasis on the carriage in Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBC).
We have a legislative requirement to report on our activities, funding and operations. We provide annual reports to government, and publish our regulatory plans, corporate plans, and plan on a page to fulfill this requirement.
We invited feedback and comments on the proposed models to recover the costs associated with delivering services to industry under the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessel