As per a notice by the China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) on 27th January 2021 (Ref No: 92 (2021) which was addressed to ship surveyors and maritime administrative agencies etc., China MSA is in the process of a revising its provisions on the formulation procedure of technical regulations for statutory ship surveys, so as to “strengthen the legislative work of ship technology and to further standardise the revision of ship technical regulations”.

Members who wish to submit comments to China MSA, please contact the followings by either phone, fax or email before 20th February, 2021.

Mr. Zhou Qicong, person in charge
Tel: 010-65292432
Fax: 010-65292427
E-mail address: zhouqicong@msa.gov.cn .

Or to the official website of China MSA（www.msa.gov.cn）.

Please find attached the full text of the documents (Chinese version only) including its four annexes – Proposal for the Establishment of Technical Regulations for Ships, Methods for Transforming International Maritime Technical Documents, Standard Reference Rules of Classification Society and other Organization, and Implementation Measures for Post Evaluation of Ship Technical Regulations