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Goal-based standards

— A new approach to the international regulation of ship construction

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The development of goal-based new ship construction standards is a new subject matter of high importance for IMO which has been included in the Organization’s strategic and long-term work plans and also in the work programme of its Maritime Safety Committee. This paper briefly describes the meaning of “goal-based” regulation in general and looks at its application to ship construction. The on-going work at IMO is presented, results achieved to date are explained and an outlook is given regarding the work still to be carried out.

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  10. See annex 4 of IMO document MSC 80/WP.8 — Report of the MSC working group on goal-based new ship construction standards

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  1. Maritime Safety Division, International Maritime Organization, USA

    Heike Hoppe

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Views expressed in this paper are those of the author and should not be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of IMO or its Secretariat.

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Hoppe, H. Goal-based standards. WMU J Marit Affairs 4, 169–180 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03195072

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