Key Benefits:
President of the Republic,
On the report of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs,
Seen them Articles 52 to 55 of the Constitution ;
Vu le Decree No. 53-192 of 14 March 1953 amended on the ratification and publication of international commitments undertaken by France,
Decrete:
The Police Regulations for the Navigation of the Moselle (RPNM) (all twelve annexes), adopted on 24 May 1995, as amended by the decision of the Moselle Commission CM/2008-I-6 of 19 June 2008, will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
The Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs are responsible for the execution of this decree, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
G L E M E N T
DE POLICE POUR LA NAVIGATION DE LA MOSELLE (RPNM) (ENSEMBLE DOUZE ANNEXES), ADOPTED on 24 MAY 1995, TEL TEL QUE MODIFIÉ PAR LA DÉCISION DE LA COMMISSION DE LA MOSELLE CM/2008-I-6 DU 19 JUIN 2008
Police regulations for the navigation of Moselle
(NML)
Contents
Articles
1.01 Definitions.
1.02 Driver.
1.03 Crew and other persons on board.
1.04 General duty of vigilance.
1.05 Conduct in special circumstances.
1.06 Use of the waterway.
1.07 Loading and visibility requirements; maximum number of passengers.
1.08 Construction, rigging and crews of buildings.
1.09.
1.10 Instrument documents and other documents.
1.11 Police regulations for the navigation of the Moselle.
1.12 Hazards resulting from objects on board; loss of objects; obstacles.
1.13 Protection of waterway signals.
1.14 Damage to works of art.
1.15 Prohibition of spill in the waterway.
1.16 Rescue and assistance.
1.17 Statement of Accidents, failed or cast buildings.
1.18 Obligation to release the fairway.
1.19 Special orders.
1.20 Control.
1.21 Special transport; amphibious vehicles; military buildings.
1.22 Temporary requirements.
1.23 Authorization of demonstration.
1.24 Application in ports, loading and unloading places.
1.25 Loading, unloading and transshipment.
1.26 Special rights of the buildings of the supervisory authorities.
1.27 Requirements, authorizations and approvals.
Articles
2.01 Building identification marks, with the exception of small craft and sea vessels.
2.02 Identification marks of small craft.
2.03.
2.04 Screw marks and drawer ladders.
2.05 Identification marks of anchors.
Section I
General
3.01 Definitions and application.
3.02 Feux et fanaux.
3.03 Pavilions, panels and flames.
3.04 Cylinders, balls and cones.
3.05 Prohibited or optional lamps and signals.
3.06 (not applicable).
3.07 Prohibition of the use of lights, headlamps, pavilions, panels and flames, etc.
Section II
3.08 Signalling of isolated motorized buildings on the road.
3.09 Signalling of towed convoys en route.
3.10. Signalling of pushed convoys on the way.
3.11. Signalling of torque trainings.
3.12. Sailing buildings.
3.13 Signalling of small craft on the way.
3.14 Additional marking of road vessels carrying out certain transport of dangerous substances.
3.15. Report of road vessels authorized for transport of more than 12 passengers and whose maximum length of the hull is less than 20.00 m.
3.16 Marking of the trays on the way.
3.17 Additional marking of road buildings with a passing priority.
3.18 Additional marking of road vessels unable to operate.
3.19 Marking of floating equipment and floating establishments.
Articles
3.20 Signalling of parking buildings.
3.21 Additional signalling of parking buildings and transporting dangerous goods.
3.22 Marking of the parking bins at their landing place.
3.23 Signalling of floating equipment and parking floating establishments.
3.24 Marking of certain parking fishing vessels, nets or perches.
3.25. Signalling of floating machines at work and unsuccessful or sewn buildings.
3.26 Additional marking of buildings, floating equipment and floating establishments whose anchors may pose a danger to navigation and anchorage signaling.
Section III
3.27 Report of the buildings of the control authorities.
3.28 Additional marking of special transport as well as of floating buildings and equipment carrying out work in the waterway.
3.29. Whirlpool protection.
3.30. Distress signs.
3.31 Report of the access ban on board.
3.32 Smoking ban, use unprotected light or fire.
3.33 Lateral parking ban signal.
4.01 General.
4.02 Use of sound signals.
4.03 Prohibited sound signals.
4.04 Distress signs.
Section II
6.01 Sailing.
6.02 Mutual behaviour of small craft and other vessels.
6.02 bis Road rules specific to small craft.
Section II
6.03 General principles.
6.04 Growth: normal rules.
6.05 Crucial: deviations from normal rules.
6.06 (not applicable).
6.07.
6.08 Crucially prohibited by inland waterway signals.
6.09 Overrun: general provisions.
6.10 Overrun: conduct and signals of buildings.
6.11 Exceeding prohibited by waterway signals.
Section III
6.12 Navigation on areas where the road is prescribed.
6.13 Transfer.
6.14 Originally driven.
6.15 Prohibition of engaging in intervals between elements of a towed convoy.
6.16 Entry and exit of ports and tributaries.
6.17 Navigation at the same height, prohibition of approaching a building.
6.18 Prohibition of the dragging of anchors, cables or chains.
6.19. Driving navigation.
6.20.
6.21 Composition of convoys.
6.22 Navigation interruption and disused sections.
6.22 bis Navigation on the right of floating machines at work and buildings failed or cast.
Section IV
6.24 Bridge and dam crossing: generalities.
6.25 Passage of fixed bridges.
6.26 Passage of nacelles locks and sports boat jokes.
6.27 Dams.
6.28 Passage to locks.
6.28 bis Entry and exit of locks.
6.29 Order of passage to locks.
Section VI
6.30 Any building that drives in time.
6.31 Parking buildings.
6.32 Radar vessels.
6.33 Buildings not navigating radar.
7.01 General principles for parking.
7.02 Parking forbidden.
7.03.
7.04.
7.05 Parking areas.
7.06 Special parking areas.
7.07 Minimum parking distance when transporting certain hazardous materials.
7.08 Guard and surveillance.
Articles
8.01 Maximum dimensions of buildings and convoys.
8.01 bis.
8.02 Removal of a pushed convoy or a pushed convoy.
8.03 Expanded convoys comprising buildings other than pushing barges.
8.04 Expanded convoys including vessel barges.
8.05 Displacement of pushing barges outside a pushed convoy.
8.06 Couplings of pushed convoys.
8.07 Phone connection on the convoys.
8.08 Circulation of people aboard pushed convoys.
8.09 (not applicable).
8.10 Signal "don't approach."
8.11 Safety on board passenger vessels.
8.12 Use of a vessel for passenger vessels.
Articles
11.01 Definitions.
11.02. General duty of vigilance.
11.03 Prohibition of spills.
11.04 Collection and processing on board.
11.05 Waste oil control note, deposit at reception stations.
11.06 Obligation of vigilance during feeding.
11.07 (Not applicable).
11.08 Oil-drying boats.
11.09 Painting and external cleaning of vessels.
ANNEXES
Appendix 1: Letter or group of separate letters from the country of the home port or place of registration of the buildings.
Annex 2: (not applicable).
Annex 3: Signalling of buildings.
Annex 4: (not applicable).
Annex 5: (not applicable).
Annex 6: Sound signals.
Annex 7: Signs of the waterway.
Annex 8: Waterway clearance.
Annex 9: (not applicable).
Annex 10: Model of Waste Oil Control Carnet.
Annex 11: (not applicable).
Annex 12: (not applicable).
10.01
Crude marks
1. Crude marks are determined by the following ratings:
| Bridge of the Dead in Metz. | 3.20 | 4.20 | 4.20 |
| Scale down the Uckange Dam. | 1.90 | 3.30 | 3.30 |
| Scale swallow : | | | |
| Koenigsmacker. | | | 7.80 |
| Apach. | | | 3.60 |
| Stadtbredimus-Palzem. | 3.70 | 4.50 | 5.30 |
| Grevenmacher-Wellen. | | | 5.20 |
| Die. | 5.20 | 5.80 | 6.95 |
| Detzem. | | | 7.05 |
| Wintrich. | | | 6.75 |
| Zeltingen. | | | 6.95 |
| Enkirch. | | | 7.80 |
| St. Aldegund. | | | 7.75 |
| Fanke. | | | 7.80 |
| Echelle de Cochem. | 4.50 | 5,00 | approximately 6,00 |
| Scale swallow : | | | |
| Müden. | | | 7.30 |
| Lehmen. | | | 7.15 |
| Echelle du Rhin à Coblence. | | | 6.50 |
Article 10.02
Drives to hold when the marks
of floods are affected or exceeded
1. When the water level reaches or exceeds the raw mark I:
(a) The circulation of towed convoys is prohibited. Without prejudice to this prohibition, these buildings must reach the nearest port of refuge or the nearest appropriate parking place outside the lock garages. The competent authorities may, in particular cases, make exceptions to the above requirements;
(b) from 4 km upstream of the locks, the swallows that are not subject to the prohibition resulting from (a) must maintain with the buildings that precede them an interval of about 1000 m, as long as the latter did not enter the garages upstream of the locks;
(c) no building is allowed to park in the garages upstream of the locks;
(d) without prejudice to the provisions of Article 6.20 of this Regulation, the maximum speed of the swallows relative to the shore shall not exceed 20 km/h;
e) the buildings that have parked in the Stadtbredimus-Palzem bief and wishing to continue their route to the swallow must first announce and coordinate their departure with the Stadtbredimus-Palzem lock.
2. When the level of water reaches or exceeds the flood mark II, navigation to the swallow is prohibited to motorized vessels whose ton loading is greater than 2.7 times the nominal power of their engine expressed in kilowatts (or approximately 2 times the power expressed in horsepower). Without prejudice to this prohibition, these buildings must reach the nearest port of refuge or the nearest appropriate parking place outside the lock garages.
3. When the water level reaches or exceeds the flood mark III, navigation is prohibited with the exception of traffic from one shore to another. Without prejudice to this prohibition, all buildings must reach the nearest port of refuge or, if impossible, park at the nearest appropriate location outside the lock garages.
4. The upstream part of the garage upstream of the Koenigsmacker lock is a harbour of refuge.
In these rules:
(a) "building" an inland navigation vessel, including small craft and ferries, a floating equipment or a sea vessel;
(b) "motorized building" a building using its own mechanical means of propulsion with the exception of buildings whose engine is used only to carry out small movements (e.g. in ports or loading and unloading places) or to increase manoeuvrability when towed or pushed;
(c) "cove" a towed convoy, a pushed convoy or a couple formation;
(d) "towed convoy" an assembly consisting of one or more buildings, floating establishments or floating equipment and towed by one or more motorized buildings; the latter are part of the convoy;
(e) " pushed convoy " means a rigid assembly consisting of buildings, at least one of which is placed in front of the two motorized buildings that provide the propulsion of the convoy and are called "puggers"; are also part of the convoys composed of a pusher building and a pushed building intersected so as to allow a guided joint;
(f) a building constructed or specially designed to be pushed;
(g) "ship barge" a pushing barge built to be transported on a sea ship and to navigate on inland waterways;
(h) "coupled formation" means an assembly consisting of interconnected buildings on board, none of which is placed in front of the motorized building which ensures the propulsion of the formation;
(i) "floating equipment" a floating construction with mechanical installations and intended to work on inland waterways or in ports (drague, lift, bigue, crane, etc.);
(j) "floating establishment" a floating installation that is not normally intended to be moved, such as bathing, dock, shipyard, boat hangar;
(k) "floating material" a raft as well as any construction, assembly or vessel suitable for navigation, other than a building or floating establishment;
(l) "battery" a building that provides a crossing service of the waterway and is classified as a ferry by the competent authority;
(m) "boat menu" a vessel whose maximum length of the hull, rudder and beautiful pre not included, is less than 20,00 m, except if it is:
a vessel authorized to to tow, push or lead to couple of vessels that are not small craft;
a building authorized to carry more than 12 passengers;
a baccalaureate, or
- a pushing barge;
(n) "Sail building" a sailing vessel only; a vessel sailing and at the same time using its own mechanical means of propulsion is a motorized building;
(o) "in parking" a building, floating equipment and a floating establishment when they are directly or indirectly anchored or moored to the shore;
(p) "walk" or "on the way" a building, floating material and a floating establishment when they are not directly or indirectly anchored or moored to the shore and are not failed;
(q) "Rail navigation" a time-scheduled navigation with radar use;
(r) "night" the period between sunset and sunrise;
(s) "day" the period between sunrise and sunset;
(t) "white fire",
"red light,"
"green light",
"yellow fire" and
"blue fire"
the lights whose colours meet the requirements for the Mosel concerning the colour and intensity of the lights, as well as the approval of the signage markers for the navigation of the Rhine;
u) "powerful fire", "light light" and "ordinary fire" lamps whose intensity meets the requirements applicable to the Mosel regarding the colour and intensity of the lights, as well as the approval of signage markers for the navigation of the Rhine;
(v) "scinding fire" a lamp whose rhythm of light periods meets the requirements for the Mosel regarding the colour and intensity of the lamp, as well as the approval of signage markers for the navigation of the Rhine;
w) "his brief" a sound of about 1 second, "its prolonged" a sound of about 4 seconds; the interval between two consecutive sounds is about 1 second;
(x) "series of very brief sounds" a series of at least six sounds of about 1/4 second each, separated by pauses of about 1/4 second;
y) "right bank" and "left bank" the sides of the waterway in the direction of the source to the mouth;
z) "to the upstream" direction to the sources of Moselle;
(aaa) "R ADN" the Regulations for the Transport of Dangerous Goods on the Rhine which have been adopted by the Regulations for the Transport of Dangerous Goods on the Mosel.
Article 1.02
Conductor
1. Any building, as well as any floating material, must be placed under the authority of a person with the appropriateness to that effect. This person is called "driver". The driver is deemed to have the required aptitude when he is a holder of one of the documents set out in the Moselle Buildings Regulations for the category of the building he conducts.
2. Any convoy must also be placed under the authority of a driver with the appropriateness to that effect.
The driver of the motorized building that provides the main propulsion is the driver of the convoy. If more than one building provides the main propulsion, the driver of the convoy must be designated in a timely manner.
3. In a pushed convoy, buildings other than the pusher are not required to have a driver, but are placed under the authority of the pusher's driver.
If in a couple training there is a push barge, the driver of this training can at the same time exercise the driver function of the barge.
4. On the way the driver must be on board; In addition, the driver of a floating device must also be on board while the gear is at work.
5. The driver is responsible for the compliance of the provisions of these Regulations, without prejudice to the liability of third parties. The conductors of the convoys are responsible for complying with the provisions applicable to the convoys.
In a towed convoy, the conductors of the towed buildings shall comply with the orders of the conductor of the convoy; However, even without such orders, they must take the necessary measures by the circumstances for the proper conduct of their buildings; the same requirements apply to drivers of a couple formation that are not a driver of the convoy.
6. If, for a building or parking space, a person is in charge of custody or supervision under section 7.08, that person shall be a driver.
7. Driver's faculties should not be hindered because of fatigue, alcohol absorption, medication, drugs or other reasons.
When the concentration of alcohol inhalein reaches 0.25 mg/l or more or when the concentration of alcohol in the blood reaches 0.5 or more or when the amount of alcohol absorbed corresponds to such a concentration of alcohol inhalein or blood, it is prohibited to ensure the conduct of the building.
Article 1.03
Crew duties
and other persons on board
1. The crew members shall perform the orders given to them by the driver as part of their responsibility. They shall contribute to compliance with the requirements of these Regulations.
2. Any other person on board is required to comply with the orders given by the driver in the interest of the safety of navigation or order on board.
3. The crew members and other persons on board who temporarily determine the road and speed of the vessel are also responsible to this extent for complying with the requirements of this Regulation and the requirements of section 1.22.
4. The faculties of the members in service of the crew under section 1.08, number 3, in connection with the number 2 and other persons on board who temporarily determine the road and speed of the vessel shall not be hindered because of fatigue, alcohol absorption, drugs, or other reasons.
When the concentration of alcohol inhalein reaches 0.25 mg/l or more or when the concentration of alcohol in the blood reaches 0.5 or more or when the amount of alcohol absorbed corresponds to such a concentration of alcohol inhalein or blood, it is prohibited for persons referred to in the first sentence of this figure to determine the road and speed of the building themselves.
Article 1.04
General vigilance
Even in the absence of special requirements of these Regulations, the driver shall take all precautionary measures that are required by the general duty of vigilance and the proper practice of navigation, in particular with a view to avoiding:
(a) to endanger the lives of persons,
(b) cause damage to other vessels and other floating materials, to the shores or to works and facilities of any kind in the waterway or its surroundings,
(c) to create obstacles to navigation and to prevent,
(d) to harm the environment while this can be avoided.
Article 1.05
Conduct in special circumstances
In the event of imminent danger, drivers shall take all the provisions that the circumstances require, even if they are therefore required to deviate from the requirements of this Regulation.
Article 1.06
Use of waterway
Without prejudice to the provisions of sections 8.01 and 8.01 bis of these Regulations, the length, width, air pulling, water pulling, loading and speed of buildings and convoys shall be compatible with the characteristics of the waterway and works of art.
Article 1.07
Loading and visibility requirements;
maximum number of passengers
1. The buildings must not be loaded beyond the deflection that corresponds to the lower limit of the deflection marks.
For channel penches the deflection is limited as follows:
―it shall not exceed that which corresponds to the lower limit of the deflection marks or the gauge marks or plates referred to in section 2.04, Figure 1;
―it must not exceed that which corresponds to a plane located 30 cm below the lowest point beyond which the building is no longer waterproof;
―it should not be located higher than the upper limit of the dashboard at the lowest point of the dish.
2. Direct visibility should not be restricted by loading or lodging of the vessel to more than 350 m forward.
If direct visibility to the rear is restricted during travel, it is possible to compensate for this lack of visibility by an optical means giving a clear and distorted image to a sufficient field.
When the direct visibility to the front is insufficient due to the cargo to allow the passage under bridges or locks, it is possible during the passage to compensate for this lack of visibility by the use of flat-reflective periscopes, radar equipment or a vigy in permanent contact with the wheelhouse.
3. The load shall not compromise the stability of the building or the hull resistance.
4. In addition, the stability of container vessels shall be checked before departure for the following cases:
a) for buildings of a width of less than 9.50 m when the containers are loaded in more than one layer,
(b) for buildings of a width equal to or greater than 9.50 m and less than 11.00 m when the containers are loaded in more than two layers,
(c) for buildings of a width equal to or greater than 11.00 m
where containers are loaded in more than three widths and more than two layers, or
– when containers are loaded in more than three layers.
5. Vessels intended for the carriage of passengers shall not exceed the number of passengers authorized by the competent authorities.
Article 1.08
Construction, rigging and building crews
1. Buildings shall be constructed and rigged so as to ensure the safety of persons on board and navigation and so as to meet the requirements of these Regulations.
2. All vessels must have a sufficiently large and qualified crew to ensure the safety of persons on board and navigation.
3. These conditions are considered to be met when the construction, rigging, crew and operation of the buildings are in accordance with either the provisions of the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or the equivalent specific requirements of one of the Moselle River States and that:
(a) the buildings are equipped with a visiting certificate and a log book in accordance with the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or documents taking place. The corresponding minimum crew must come from one of the documents mentioned in the first sentence;
(b) evidence of the qualification of crew members shall be provided by means of a service booklet conforming to the Rhine model or any of the documents provided for in the Mosel Buildings Regulations. This does not apply to small craft.
4. Without prejudice to number 3, the individual life-saving means listed in number 44 of the visiting certificate or in the document taking place must be appropriate for passengers and must be available on board. Individual rescue means are deemed appropriate if they comply with European standards EN 395: 1998, EN 396: 1998, EN ISO 12402-3: 2006 or EN ISO 12402-4: 2006 and are available in a distribution corresponding to the number of adults and children among passengers.
Article 1.09
Holding of the bar
1. On the way, the bar must be held by at least one qualified person who is 16 years of age.
2. The age requirement does not apply in the case of small craft not equipped with mechanical propulsion.
3. In order to ensure the proper conduct of the building, the bar man must be able to receive and give all the information and orders that arrive at or depart from the wheelhouse. In particular, it must be able to hear sound signals and have a sufficiently clear view in all directions.
4. Where special circumstances require it, a shift or a listening position must be placed to inform the bar man.
Article 1.10
Instrument and other documents
1. The following certificates and other documents shall be on board when prescribed by special provisions:
(a) the building visiting certificate or document taking place,
(b) the licence of the conductor of the vessel or a document taking place and, for the other members of the crew, the duly completed service booklet or the Rhine bakery licence or a document taking place,
(c) the duly completed shipbook, including the certificate referred to in Schedule K to the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or a copy of the page of the ship's log containing the indications relating to the time of navigation and rest observed on the vessel on which the crew member made the last voyage, or the document taking place,
(d) a certificate relating to the issuance of flight books,
(e) lock priority certification,
(f) the building gauge certificate,
(g) the certificate relating to the installation and operation of the tachograph and the prescribed recordings of the tachograph,
(h) the radar or equivalent certificate; these documents are not required on board when the Rhine's patent card is marked "Radar" or the equivalent driver's certificate is marked,
(i) the certificate relating to the installation and operation of the radar device and the rate-of-turn indicator,
(j) a radio operator certificate for the control of ship stations in accordance with Appendix 5 of the Regional Arrangement for Radiotelephone Service on Inland Waterways,
(k) the "frequency assignment" licence
(l) the Radiotelephone Guide for Inland Navigation, General Part and Regional Part Rhin/Moselle,
(m) the waste oil checkbook, duly filled,
(n) boiler and other pressure tanks,
(o) a certificate for liquefied gas installations,
(p) documents relating to electrical installations,
(q) certificates of control of portable fire extinguishers and fire-extinguishing facilities that are permanently attached,
(r) certificates of crane control,
(s) the documents required by 8.1.2.1, 8.1.2.2 and 8.1.2.3 of the ADNR,
(t) in the case of transport of containers, documents relating to the stability of the vessel verified by a visiting commission, including the plan or loading slip corresponding to the case of loading and the result of the stability calculation for the case of loading or a comparable case of prior loading or a case of type loading of the vessel,
(u) the certificate relating to the duration and local delimitation of the construction site on which the building can be put into service,
(v) the certificate of identification for small craft,
(w) copies of the certificate of receipt by type and the collection of engine parameters required in accordance with Article 8 bis 02, Figure 3, of the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or the equivalent specific requirements of one of the Moselle River States.
2. The papers referred to in number 1, letters (a) and (f), above shall not be required on board barges on which a metal plate is affixed according to the model below:
Single European Ship Identification Number:
Certificate of visit (or document taking place):
- Number:
― Visiting Commission (or authority that issued the document in place):
• Valid until:
If a push barge has an official number, this expression must appear on the metal plate and the official number of the push barge must be indicated.
The required markings shall be engraved or punched in well-readable characters of at least 6 mm high.
The metal plate shall be at least 60 mm in height and 120 mm in length; it must be fixed to a well-readable place, towards the back of the barge, starboard side.
The concordance between the indications on the plate and those of the barge's certificate of visit, or of the document taking place, must be confirmed by a visiting commission, or by the authority that issued this document, the punch of which will be applied on the plate.
The documents referred to in number 1, letters (a) and (f), above shall be retained by the owner of the barge.
The presence on board of the paper referred to in Figure 1, letter x), is not necessary when the number of type approval within the meaning of Annex J, Part I, Figure 1.1.3, of the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or the equivalent specific requirements of one of the Moselle River States is affixed to the metal plate.
3. The construction facilities referred to in the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations, not fitted with wheelhouses or accommodation, are not required to have on board the documents referred to in number 1, letters (a) and (f) above; However, these documents must be made available permanently in the construction industry.
Construction buildings must have on board a certificate from the competent authority relating to the duration and local delimitation of the construction site on which the building can be put into service.
4. The certificates and other documents referred to in Figure 1 above shall be submitted to any requisition of the competent authorities.
Article 1.11
Police regulations for navigation
Moselle
An updated copy of these Regulations, including the requirements set out in section 1.22, Figure 3, shall be on board any vessel, with the exception of small craft and pushing barges. A copy can be accessed at any time by means of an electronic medium.
Article 1.12
Dangers resulting from objects on board;
loss of objects; obstacles
1. It is prohibited to let overflow of buildings, floating equipment or floating establishments, objects that could result in one of the disadvantages referred to in 1.04.
2. When anchors are raised, they must not exceed the bottom or keel of the building.
3. When a vessel or floating equipment loses an object and can result in a barrier or danger to navigation, the driver must promptly notify the nearest competent authorities, indicating as precisely as possible the location where the object was lost. It must also, to the extent possible, mark this place of a mark.
4. When a building encounters an obstacle constraining the waterway, the driver must promptly notify the closest competent authorities by indicating as precisely as possible the place where the obstacle was encountered.
Article 1.13
Protection of waterway signals
1. It is forbidden to use the signals of the inland waterway (bushes, floats, beacons, warning rafts with inland waterway signals etc.) to get rid of or dehale, damage these signals or make them unfit for their destination.
2. When a vessel or floating equipment has moved or damaged a facility that is part of the waterway signage, the driver must promptly notify the nearest competent authorities.
3. In general, any driver has the duty to promptly notify the competent authorities closest to the incidents or accidents found at the signalling facilities (fire suppression, mud displacement, signal destruction, etc.)
Article 1.14
Damage to works of art
When a building or floating equipment has damaged a work of art (closed, bridge, epi, etc.), the driver must promptly notify the nearest competent authorities.
Article 1.15
Prohibition of spill in the waterway
1. It is prohibited to throw or pour solid objects or other substances in the waterway that may result in an obstacle or danger to navigation or other waterway users.
2. In the event of a spill or threat of such spill, the driver must promptly notify the nearest competent authorities, indicating as precisely as possible the nature and location of the spill.
Article 1.16
Rescue and assistance
1. In the event of an accident that endangers persons on board, the driver must use all the means at his disposal to save those persons.
2. Any driver who is close to a building or floating equipment that is a victim of an accident that endangers people or threatens to create an obstruction of the channel is required, to the extent compatible with the security of his own building, to provide immediate assistance.
3. When an accident occurred, each person involved must be kept informed of the consequences of the accident and provide information to establish his or her identity, identify his or her building and know the nature of his or her involvement. Is involved in an accident, any person whose behaviour, in particular circumstances, could have caused an accident.
Article 1.17
Statement of accidents, failed or sunk buildings
1. Accidents and other impediments to navigational safety must be declared promptly to the competent authorities. In the event of an accident in the lock area, the driver must immediately notify the operating agent of the lock in question.
2. The conductor of a failed or cast floating building or equipment shall notify, as soon as possible, the closest competent authorities. The driver or other member of the crew shall remain on board or near the place of the accident until the competent authority has authorized his departure.
3. Unless this is clearly not necessary and without prejudice to the provisions of Article 3.25, the driver shall, as soon as possible, notify the floating buildings or equipment that are approaching, in appropriate points and at sufficient distance from the place of the accident, so that these floating buildings or equipment may make the necessary arrangements in due course.
Article 1.18
Obligation to clear the channel
1. When a failed or cast floating building or equipment or an object lost by a floating building or equipment creates or threatens to create a total or partial obstruction of the channel, the conductor shall use the channel to be cleared as soon as possible.
2. The same obligation lies with the driver whose vessel or floating equipment threatens to flow or becomes unable to manoeuvre.
3. The obligation to remove from the river bed unsuccessful or sewn buildings, failed floating materials or lost objects is regulated by national requirements.
4. The competent authorities may proceed without delay to the kidnapping, if they consider that the operation cannot be postponed.
Article 1.19
Special orders
Drivers must comply with the specific orders given to them by the competent authorities for safety or good order of navigation. This applies also in case of cross-border prosecution.
Article 1.20
Monitoring
Drivers shall provide the appropriate authorities with the necessary facilities to enable them to comply with the requirements of these Regulations and, in particular, facilitate their immediate boarding on board.
Article 1.21
Special transport; amphibious vehicles;
Military buildings
1. All movements on the waterway shall be considered as special transport:
(a) buildings and convoys that do not meet the requirements of articles 1.06 and 1.08, number 1,
(b) floating establishments and
(c) floating materials unless, of their displacement, there is clearly no obstacle or danger to navigation or damage to works of art.
Such transport shall be permitted only by special authorization issued by the competent authorities of the sectors to be covered. They are subject to the conditions that these authorities will determine in each case.
A driver shall be designated for each carriage taking into account the provisions of 1.02.
2. Amphibious vehicles are considered for the purposes of this Regulation as small craft.
3. The multi-purpose buildings of the German army and the military buildings of the riparian states of the Moselle being carried out are in principle such as small craft. Articles 6.02 and 6.02 bis, figures 1 and 3, are applicable. They show, day and night, the sparkling yellow fire referred to in Article 3.28.
4. The number 1, 1st sentence, letter (b), above is also applicable downstream of the Apach Border Lock (PK 242.43 of the Mosel) for floating hydrates and hull hydrates outside the authorized aerodromes and take-off and landing lands, provided that these are not buildings that, according to the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations, are subject to the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations.
Article 1.22
Temporary requirements
1. Drivers shall comply with the requirements of a temporary character, as enacted by the competent authority in special cases for safety and good order of navigation and published by notice.
2. These requirements may, inter alia, be motivated by work carried out on the waterway, military exercises, public events within the meaning of Article 1.23 or by the conditions of the waterway; They may, on specific sections where special precautions are necessary and are reported by buoys, tags or other signals or by warnings, prohibit night navigation or passage of buildings of too large pulling water.
3. The provisions of Figure 1 above also relate to the requirements that may be enacted, when it appears necessary to take navigational police measures pending a modification of these Regulations or as a test. These requirements will be valid for a maximum of three years. They will be implemented in all riparian States at the same time and repealed under the same conditions.
Article 1.23
Authorization of demonstration
Sports events, nautical festivals and other events that may affect safety and good order of navigation are subject to the permission of the competent authorities. It is also required for work and training exercises that can bring obstacles to safety or good order of navigation on the waterway.
Article 1.24
Application in ports,
loading and unloading places
These Regulations also apply to water surfaces that are part of the ports and places of loading and unloading, without prejudice to the specific provisions of the navigation police enacted for these ports and places of loading and unloading and required by local circumstances and loading and unloading operations.
Article 1.25
Loading, unloading and transshipment
The loading, unloading or trans-shipment is prohibited outside the ports or locations designated for this purpose by the competent authorities.
Article 1.26
Special rights of control authorities ' buildings
The vessels of the control authorities bearing the marking provided for in Article 3.27 shall not be required to observe the provisions of this Regulation, to the extent necessary for the performance of their mission and if it does not result in any breach of the safety of navigation.
Article 1.27
Requirements, authorizations and approvals
Requirements, authorizations and approvals may be subject to restrictions and conditions by the competent authority.
Article 2.01
Building identification marks,
except small craft and sea vessels
1. Any vessel, with the exception of small craft and sea vessels, shall bear on its hull or on boards or plates permanently attached to the following markings:
(a) its name which may also be a currency.
The name will be worn on both sides of the building and, except for the pushing barges, it will also have to be affixed so as to be visible from the rear. If, in a couple formation or pushed convoy, one or more inscriptions of the name of the propellant building are masked, the name must be repeated on panels placed so as to be clearly visible in the directions where the inscriptions are masked.
In the absence of a name for the building, either the name of the organization to which the building belongs (or its usual abbreviation), followed, if any, by a number, or the registration number followed, to indicate the country where the home port or place of registration, the letter or group of letters provided for that country in Annex 1 to this Regulation;
(b) its attachment port or place of registration.
The name of the attachment port or the place of registration shall be marked either on both sides of the building or on its rear and shall be followed by the letter or group of letters indicating the country where the attachment port or place of registration is located;
(c) its unique European boat identification number, which consists of eight Arab figures, the first three digits used to identify the country and the office where this unique European boat identification number was assigned. This identification mark is only mandatory for buildings to which a unique European vessel identification number was assigned;
(d) its official number, which consists of seven Arab figures, possibly followed by a letter in a small size, the first two digits to identify the country and the office where this official number was assigned. This identification mark is only mandatory for buildings to which an official number has been assigned which has not yet been converted into a single European vessel identification number.
The unique European vessel identification number and the official number will be displayed in the conditions prescribed in letter (a) above.
2. In addition, with the exception of small craft and sea vessels,
(a) any building intended for the carriage of goods shall bear the indication, in tons, of its heavy port;
this indication shall be affixed on both sides of the building, on the hull or on boards or plates attached to the building;
(b) any vessel intended for the carriage of passengers shall indicate the maximum number of authorized passengers. This indication must be displayed on board in a very apparent place.
3. The identification marks mentioned in Figures 1 and 2 will be displayed in Latin, legible and indelible characters. The height of the characters will be at least 20 cm for the name, the unique European boat identification number and the official number and at least 15 cm for the other brands.
The width of the characters and the thickness of the strokes will be proportional to the height. The characters will be of light color on dark background or dark color on light background.
4. The identification marks mentioned above may be replaced for channel penches by those prescribed or allowed on the French channels or on the Saar.
Article 2.02
Small craft identification marks
1. The small craft must bear an official identification mark: this mark must have at least 10 cm high and be placed forward on both sides, in clear colour on dark background or in dark colour on clear background.
2. Small craft may be exempted from the marks provided for in Figure 1 by specific requirements. In this case, small craft must bear:
(a) their name or currency.
The name will be marked on the exterior of the boat in Latin, legible and indelible characters. In the absence of a name or currency for the craft, the name of the organization to which the vessel belongs (or its usual abbreviation), followed, if any, by a number. The characters will be of light color on dark background or dark color on light background.
(b) the name and domicile of their owner.
The owner's name and domicile will be carried in an apparent location inside or outside the boat.
3. However, a building's service canoes will only carry, inside or outside, a mark that allows the owner to be identified.
Article 2.03
Jaugeage
Any inland navigation vessel, with the exception of small craft, intended for the carriage of goods must be jauged.
Article 2.04
Water-fired markers and ladders
1. Any vessel, with the exception of small craft, must bear marks indicating the plan of the largest sinking. For sea vessels, the summer freshwater line is used as sink marks. The procedures for determining the largest sinking and the conditions for the affixing marks are set out in the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or in the equivalent specific requirements of one of the Moselle River States.
For channel penches the deflection marks may be replaced by at least one line or a gauge plate on each side of the building, as set out in accordance with the existing International Convention on the Measurement of Inland Navigation Vessels.
2. Any vessel with a water-fire of up to 1 m, with the exception of small craft and canal barges, shall carry water-drawing ladders. Their zero shall correspond to the level of the bottom of the building's hull to the law of the scale, or, if there is a keel, at the level of the keel to the law of the scale.
Article 2.05
Identification marks of anchors
1. The anchors of the buildings must bear, in indelible characters, identification marks that must include at least, the order number of the building's visiting certificate and the distinctive letters of the Visiting Commission, the name and domicile of the building owner.
When an anchor is used on another building of the same owner, these primitive marks may be retained.
2. The provision in Figure 1 above does not apply to anchors of sea vessels, small craft and vessels operating only exceptionally on the Mosel.
Article 3.01
Definitions and application
(Appendix 3: Sketch 1)
1. This chapter is called
a) "mast fire" a powerful white light visible on a horizon arc of 225°, from the front to 22° 30' on the back of the cross of each edge, and visible only on this arc;
(b) "side lights" of the starboard lights by a light green light and on the port side by a light red light, each visible on a horizon arc of 112° 30' (i.e. from the front to 22° 30' on the back of the crossing) and visible only on this arc;
(c) a white ordinary lamp or a white light lamp, visible on a 135° horizon arc, or 67° 30' on each edge from the rear, and only on this arc;
(d) "light visible from all sides" a light visible on a 360° horizon arc.
2. When the visibility conditions require, the lights prescribed for the night must also be lighted daylight.
3. For the purposes of this chapter
(a) pushed convoys whose length does not exceed 110.00 m and whose width does not exceed 11.45 m are considered to be single-length motorized vessels,
(b) coupled formations whose length exceeds 140.00 m are considered pushed convoys of the same length.
4. Sketches of signs prescribed in this chapter are listed in Appendix 3 to these Regulations.
5. Buildings pending locking may retain the prescribed signage for road vessels.
Article 3.02
Feux and fanaux
1. Unless otherwise prescribed, the lamps prescribed in this Regulation shall illuminate on all sides and show continuous and uniform light.
2. Can only be used by signage markers
(a) whose bodies, accessories and light sources bear the approval mark required by the requirements for the colour and intensity of the lamps and the approval of signage markers for the navigation of the Rhine and
(b) the lamps meet the above-mentioned requirements for horizontal diffusion, colour and intensity.
3. Night signalling of non-motorized parking buildings shall not necessarily meet the requirements of Figure 2 above; However, in good visibility and in front of a dark background, its scope must be about 1000 m.
Article 3.03
Pavilions, panels and flames
1. Unless otherwise prescribed, the pavilions, panels and flames prescribed in this Regulation shall be rectangular.
2. The colours of the pavilions, panels and flames must not be passed or salted.
3. Their dimensions must be sufficient to ensure good visibility; this condition shall be considered to be fulfilled in any case if:
– the length and width of the pavilions and panels are each at least 1,00 m;
– the length of the flames is at least 1.00 m and their width on one side of at least 0.50 m.
Article 3.04
Cylinders, balls and cones
1. The cylinders, balls and cones prescribed in this Regulation may be replaced by devices with the same appearance at a distance.
2. Their colours must not be past or salty.
3. Their dimensions must be at least:
(a) for cylinders, 0.80 m in height and 0.50 m in diameter;
(b) for balloons, 0.60 m in diameter;
(c) for cones, 0.60 m in height and 0.60 m in diameter;
(d) for b icons, 0.80 m in height and 0.50 m in diameter.
4. By derogation from the requirements of the number 3 above, for small craft the signalling bodies may have lower dimensions in proportion to the size of the small craft; However, they must be large enough to be clearly visible.
Article 3.05
Prohibited or optional lamps and signals
1. It is prohibited to use lamps or signals other than those mentioned in these Regulations or to make use of the lamps or signals mentioned in conditions other than those prescribed or permitted by the regulations.
2. However, for communication between buildings or between buildings and land, the use of other lights or signals is permitted provided that they do not confuse the lights or signals mentioned in these Regulations.
Article 3.06
(not applicable)
Article 3.07
Prohibition of using lights, projectors,
pavilions, panels and flames, etc.
1. It is prohibited to use lights or headlamps, as well as pavilions, panels, flames or other objects, in such a way that they may be confused with the signs referred to in this Regulation or may affect their visibility or complicate their identification.
2. It is forbidden to use lights or projectors in such a way that they produce a glare that constitutes a danger or a discomfort for navigation or traffic on the ground.
Section II
Article 3.08
Signalling of Isolated Motorized Buildings
(Annex 3: Sketch 2, 3)
1. Insulated motorized buildings on the road must carry
at night:
(a) a mast lamp placed in the front part of the building at a height of 5,00 m at least above the plan of the deflection marks; this height may be reduced to 4,00 m if the length of the building does not exceed 40,00 m;
(b) the side lamps, which shall be at the same height and on the same perpendicular to the axis of the building; they shall be placed at least 1,00 m below the mast lamp and at least 1,00 m behind it, and be masked inside the building so that the green lamp cannot be seen from port or starboard red lamp;
(c) a beam lamp placed in the back of the building.
2. In the event that a motorized, insulated road building has more than 110.00 m in length, it shall carry at night, in addition, a second mast lamp placed at the rear at a height greater than that to which the front lamp is placed.
3. The provisions of this article shall not apply to small craft or to vessels; the rules applicable to small craft are set out in section 3.13 and those applicable to vessels under section 3.16.
Article 3.09
Signalling of towed convoys
(Annex 3: Sketches 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
1. The motorized building at the head of a towed convoy on the road must carry:
at night:
(a) in addition to the mast lamp and the side lamps prescribed in number 1, letters (a) and (b) of article 3.08, a second mast lamp, placed approximately 1,00 m below the first mast lamp and, as far as possible, at 1,00 m at least higher than the side lamp;
(b) instead of the stern lamp referred to in Figure 1, letter (c) of Article 3.08, a yellow stern lamp placed at an appropriate location and at a height sufficient to be visible by the towed unit following the building;
day:
a yellow cylinder lined up and down, of two black and white strips, the white strips being at the ends of the cylinder; this cylinder shall be placed vertically at the front, at a height sufficient to be visible from all sides.
2. In the event that a towed convoy is headed by a number of motorized buildings that are adjacent to each other, coupled or not, each of these buildings must bear:
at night:
a third mast lamp placed approximately 2,00 m below the first mast lamp, but as much as possible at 1,00 m at least higher than the side lamp;
day:
the cylinder referred to in number 1 above.
The same applies to each of the motorized buildings that together operate a building, floating equipment or a floating establishment.
3. Each of the towed buildings of a towed convoy on the way must bear:
at night:
a white light, visible from all sides, placed at least 5,00 m above the plane of the deflection marks. This height may be reduced to 4,00 m for buildings with a length not exceeding 40,00 m;
day:
a yellow ball placed at an appropriate location and at a height as visible from all sides.
However,
(a) if a length of the convoy exceeds 110.00 m, it shall carry two lamps at night in accordance with the first sentence, one on its front part and one on its rear part,
(b) if a length of the convoy includes a row of more than two intersected buildings, the lamps or balloons referred to in the first sentence above shall be carried only by the two outer buildings of the row.
The lamps and balloons of all the towed buildings of a convoy shall, as far as possible, be carried to the same height above the water plan.
4. The building(s) forming the last length of a towed convoy shall carry by night:
(a) the lamp prescribed in number 3 above or the mast lamp prescribed in number 1, letter (a), of Article 3.08;
(b) the stern lamp prescribed in number 1, letter (c), of section 3.08. If the convoy ends with a row of more than two intersected buildings, only the two exterior buildings of the row shall carry this beam lamp.
5. In the rades, convoys composed solely of a motorized building and a single towed unit are not required to carry the day marking prescribed in this section.
6. The provisions of this article shall not apply to small craft to be used only for small craft or for small towed craft; the rules applicable to such small craft are set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of section 3.13.
Article 3.10
Signalling of pushed convoys
(Annex 3: Sketch 11, 12, 13, 14)
1. The pushed convoys on their way must carry at night:
(a) mast lamps
i. three mast lights at the front of the building at the head of the convoy or, in the case of several buildings at the head of the convoy, the port building. These mast lamps shall be arranged according to a horizontal equilateral triangle in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the convoy. The upper mast lamp must be placed at a height of at least 5,00 m above the plane of the deflection marks. The two lower mast lights shall be placed approximately 1.25 m from each other and approximately 1.10 m below the upper mast lamp;
ii. a mast lamp at the front of any other building whose total width is visible from front. This mast lamp shall be placed as much as possible at 3.00 m below the upper mast lamp referred to in Figure I above.
The masts bearing these mast lights shall be placed in the longitudinal axis of the building on which they are located;
(b) side lamps
placed on the widest part of the convoy, as close as possible to the pusher, not more than 1,00 m on the edges of the convoy and not less than 2,00 m above the water plan;
(c) Potato lamps
i. three white beam lamps on the rear of the pusher, placed on a horizontal line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, at a distance of approximately 1.25 m and at a height sufficient not to be obscured by one of the other vessels of the convoy;
ii. a white beam lamp on the rear of each other building whose total width is visible from the rear; However, when more than two buildings other than the pusher are visible from the rear, this beam lamp must be carried only by the two buildings located outside the convoy.
2. The pushed convoys propelled by two pushers placed side by side shall carry the beam lamps referred to in number 1, letter (c), number I, above on the pusher placed on starboard; the other pusher shall carry the beam lamp referred to in number 1, letter c), number II, above.
3. The provisions of Figure 1 above also apply to pushed convoys when towed at night; However, the three beam lamps conforming to Figure 1, letter (c), Figure I, above shall be yellow.
4. When a pushed convoy is towed day, the pusher must carry:
a yellow ball placed at an appropriate location and at a height as visible from all sides.
Article 3.11
Signaling of road couple training
(Annex 3: Sketches 15, 16)
1. The driving couple trainings must carry at night:
(a) on each building the mast lamp prescribed in number 1, letter (a), of Article 3.08; However, on non-motorized buildings, this mast lamp may be replaced by the lamp prescribed in section 3.09, number 3, placed at an appropriate location, not higher than the mast lamp of the motorized building(s);
(b) the side lamps prescribed in number 1, letter (b), of Article 3.08; these lamps shall be placed outside the formation, as far as possible at the same height, at least 1,00 m below the lowest mast lamp;
(c) on each building a beam lamp placed in the rear.
2. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to small craft that leads to couple only small craft, or to small craft made to couple; the rules applicable to such small craft are set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of section 3.13.
Article 3.12
Sailing buildings report
(Annex 3: Sketch 17)
1. Sailing buildings on the road must carry at night:
(a) the side lamps prescribed in number 1, letter (b), of Article 3.08: however, these lamps may be ordinary lamps;
(b) the beam lamp placed in the back of the building.
2. The provisions of this article shall not apply to small craft; the rules applicable to small craft are set out in paragraphs 1, 4 and 6 of section 3.13.
Article 3.13
Signalling of small-scale boats
(Annex 3: Sketches 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
1. The insulated motorized small craft on their way must carry at night:
Either
(a) a mast lamp, clear instead of powerful, placed at the same height as the side lamps and at least 1,00 m in front of them;
(b) side lamps that may be ordinary lamps. They shall be at the same height and on the same perpendicular to the axis of the building and be masked inside the building so that the green lamp cannot be seen from port or the red starboard lamp;
(c) a stern fire;
or
(d) the mast lamp prescribed in (a) above; However, this lamp shall be placed at least 1.00 m higher than the side lamps;
(e) the side lamps prescribed in (b) above; However, these lights may be placed next to each other or in the same lantern in the axis of the building;
(f) a stern fire; However, this lamp may be removed provided that the mast lamp referred to in (d) above is a clear white lamp visible from all sides.
2. When a small craft trailers or only leads to a couple of small craft, it shall carry the lamps prescribed in Figure 1 above.
3. The small boats towed or coupled must bear at night: an ordinary white light visible from all sides. The requirements of this number do not apply to vessel service canoes.
4. Insulated windboats on their way must carry at night:
Either
the side lamps prescribed in number 1, letter (b) or (e) above and a beam lamp,
or
the same side lights and the beam lamp placed in the same lantern at the top of the mast,
or
a white ordinary lamp visible from all sides and, in addition, near other buildings, show a second white ordinary lamp.
5. Insulated small boats that are not motorized or sailing must carry at night an ordinary white light visible from all sides. However, service canoes of buildings under the same conditions must only show this fire when approaching other buildings.
6. A small craft sailing and making use of an engine at the same time must be daily:
a black cone whose tip is directed downwards. This cone must be placed as high as possible and where it will be most apparent.
Article 3.14
Additional road signs
transporting dangerous substances
(Annex 3: Sketches 27 a, 27 b, 28 a, 28 b, 29, 30, 31, 32)
1. Road vessels transporting certain flammable substances referred to in ADNR shall, in addition to the marking prescribed by the other provisions of this Regulation, bear the following marking referred to in 7.1.5.0 or 7.2.5.0 of ADNR:
at night:
a blue light;
day:
a blue cone, tip down.
This signal must be placed at an appropriate location and at a height as visible from all sides, the blue cone can be replaced by a blue cone at the front and a blue cone at the rear of the building, at a height of 3.00 m at least above the plan of the deflection marks.
2. Road vessels carrying out transport of certain substances that are hazardous to the health referred to in ADNR shall bear, in addition to the marking prescribed by the other provisions of this Regulation, the following marking referred to in 7.1.5.0 or 7.2.5.0 of ADNR:
at night:
two blue lights;
day:
Two blue cones, downstairs.
These signals shall be placed at approximately 1.00 m each above the other, at an appropriate location and at a height such that they are visible from all sides; the two blue cones can be replaced by two blue cones at the front and two blue cones at the rear of the building, the lower cone being placed at a height of 3.00 m at least above the plan of the deflection marks.
3. Road vessels carrying out transport of certain explosive substances referred to in ADNR shall bear, in addition to the marking prescribed by the other provisions of this Regulation, the following marking referred to in 7.1.5.0 or 7.2.5.0 of ADNR:
at night:
three blue lights;
day:
Three blue cones, downstairs.
These signals must be placed at approximately 1.00 m each above the other, at an appropriate location and at a height such that they are visible from all sides.
4. When a pushed convoy or a driving couple formation includes one or more buildings referred to in number 1, 2 or 3 above, it is the vessel providing the propulsion of the convoy or formation that shall bear the marking referred to in number 1, 2 or 3 above.
5. The pushed convoys propelled by two pushers placed side by side shall bear the marking referred to in number 4 above on the pusher placed on starboard.
6. Buildings, pushed convoys or coupled formations that carry together several different dangerous substances referred to in number 1, 2 or 3 above shall bear the signalling of the dangerous substance requiring the largest number of blue lights or blue cones.
7. Non-treated vessels to carry the marking referred to in Figure 1, 2 or 3 above, but which are equipped with a certificate of approval under ADNR 8.1.8 and complying with the safety provisions applicable to the buildings referred to in Figure 1 above, may, at the approach of the locks, carry the marking referred to in Figure 1 above when they want to be placed in common with a listed building to be marked with the number 1
8. The intensity of the blue lights prescribed in this article shall be at least that of the blue ordinary lights.
Article 3.15
Report of road vessels authorized for transport of more than 12 passengers with maximum hull length of less than 20,00 m
(Annex 3: Sketch 33)
The vessels authorized for the carriage of more than 12 passengers and whose maximum length of the hull is less than 20.00 m shall be daily:
a yellow b icon placed at an appropriate location and at a height as visible from all sides.
Article 3.16
Signalling of trays on the road
(Annex 3: Sketch 34, 35, 36)
1. Bacs that do not fly freely must carry at night:
a) a clear white light visible from all sides and placed at least 5,00 m above the plane of the deflection marks; However, this height may be reduced if the length of the bin does not exceed 15,00 m;
(b) a green light visible from all sides and placed approximately 1.00 m above the lamp referred to in (a) above.
2. The head canoe or float of a longitudinal cable tray shall be equipped with a white light lamp at least 3.00 m above the water plane.
3. The freely flowing ferries shall be carried by night:
(a) the lamps prescribed in paragraph 1 of this article;
(b) the lamps prescribed in number 1, letters (b) and (c), of section 3.08.
Article 3.17
Additional road signs
enjoying a passing priority
(Annex 3: Sketch 37)
The vessels to which the competent authority has granted a priority of passage to places where the order of passage is set by it shall bear, in addition to the marking prescribed by the other provisions of these Regulations:
a red flame raised to the front at a height sufficient to be clearly visible.
Article 3.18
Additional road signs
unable to manoeuvre
(Annex 3: Sketch 38)
In the event of need, a vessel that is unable to manoeuvre shall bear, in addition to the marking prescribed by the other provisions of these Regulations,
at night: a red light bent;
day: a red pavilion swings or emit the sound signal,
or
both operations. The pavilion can be replaced by a panel of the same color.
Article 3.19
Signalling of floating equipment
and floating establishments
(Annex 3: Sketch 39)
Without prejudice to the special conditions that may be imposed under section 1.21, floating equipment and floating establishments shall carry at night:
visible white lights from all sides in sufficient numbers to indicate their contours.
Article 3.20
Signalling of parking buildings
(Annex 3: Sketch 40, 41)
1. The buildings, other than small craft and those referred to in sections 3.22 and 3.25, shall carry at night parking:
a white ordinary lamp visible from all sides, placed on the side of the channel and at least 3.00 m above the base mark plane.
This lamp can be replaced by a white ordinary lamp at the front and a white ordinary lamp at the rear of the building, visible from all sides, placed on the side of the channel at the same height.
2. Parking small craft, with the exception of building service canoes, must carry at night:
a white ordinary lamp visible from all sides, placed on the side of the channel.
3. The lamp prescribed in number 1 or 2 above is not mandatory
(a) where the building is part of a set of buildings not likely to be dissociate before the end of the night and the buildings of that set, on the side of the waterway, carry the lamp provided in figure 1 above;
(b) where the building is entirely on a surface of water between unsubmerged spikes or stationed behind a longitudinal dam emerging from water;
(c) when the building parks along the shore and is sufficiently illuminated from that shore.
4. In special cases, certain buildings gathered at a location specially assigned to their parking space may be exempted by the competent authority from the requirement to carry the lamp prescribed in number 1 or 2 above.
Article 3.21
Additional signalling of parking buildings
Transport of dangerous substances
(Annex 3: Sketch 42, 43, 44)
The requirements of Article 3.14 also apply to buildings, pushed convoys and couple formations referred to in the said Article when they are in parking.
Article 3.22
Signage of parking bins to their landing
(Annex 3: Sketches 45, 46)
1. Batteries that do not fly freely shall carry at night the lamps prescribed in section 3.16, number 1.
2. The vessels flying freely in service shall carry at night the lamps prescribed in Article 3.16, Figure 1; they may also keep the lamps prescribed in number 1, letters (b) and (c), of section 3.08.
They shall extinguish the green light referred to in number 1, letter (b), section 3.16 and the lights prescribed in number 1, letters (b) and (c), of section 3.08 as soon as they are no longer in service.
Article 3.23
Signalling of floating equipment
and parking floating establishments
(Annex 3: Sketch 47)
Without prejudice to the special conditions that may be imposed under section 1.21, floating equipment and floating establishments shall carry at night parking:
white ordinary lamps, visible from all sides, in sufficient numbers to indicate their contours on the side of the waterway.
The lamps prescribed in sentence 1 are not required when the conditions set out in article 3.20, number 3, letter (b) or (c) are observed or when the objects and floating devices are immobilized outside the channel at a clearly perfectly secured place.
Article 3.24
Reporting certain fishing boats in parking,
nets or perches
(Annex 3: Sketch 48)
Fishing boats, small craft included, having nets or perches that extend in or near the channel, must carry in night parking:
the lamp prescribed in Article 3.20, Figure 1.
In addition, their nets or perches shall be reported by:
at night:
white ordinary lamps, visible from all sides, in sufficient numbers to indicate their position;
day:
sufficient numbers of yellow floats to indicate their position.
Article 3.25
Signalling of floating equipment at work
and unsuccessful or unsewn buildings
(Annex 3: Sketches 49 a, 49 b, 50 a, 50 b, 51, 52)
1. Work-floating equipment and buildings in the river shall be parked:
(a) from or on where the passage is free:
at night:
two ordinary green lights
or
two light green lights;
day:
Panel E.1 (Annex 7)
or
two superimposed green icons, placed approximately 1.00 m above each other and, if applicable,
(b) on the side where the passage is not free:
at night:
an ordinary red light
or
a light red light,
placed at the same height as the highest of the two green lights prescribed in (a) above and the same intensity as those prescribed;
day:
the sign A1 (Annex 7) placed at the same height as the sign referred to in (a) above
or
a red ball placed at the same height as the highest of the b icons prescribed in letter (a) above
or
in the event that these buildings have to be protected against whirlwind,
(c) from or on where the passage is free:
at night:
a red ordinary lamp and a white ordinary lamp or a red light lamp and a white light lamp, the red lamp being placed approximately 1.00 m above the white lamp;
day:
a pavilion whose upper half is red and lower half white, or two pavilions placed one above the other and whose upper is red and the lower white
and, where appropriate,
(d) on the side where the passage is not free:
at night:
a red lamp, placed at the same height as the red lamp prescribed in the letter (c) above and at the same intensity as it;
day:
a red pavilion placed at the same height as the red and white pavilion or the red pavilion on the other side.
These signs must be placed at a height such that they are visible on all sides. The pavilions can be replaced by panels of the same color.
2. Failed or cast vessels shall bear the marking prescribed in number 1, letters (c) and (d). If the position of a cast building prevents placing the signals on the building, they must be placed on canoes, buoys or otherwise appropriate.
3. The competent authority may exempt the lights prescribed in number 1, letters (a) and (b) above.
Article 3.26
Additional marking of buildings, floating equipment and floating establishments whose anchors may pose a danger to navigation and anchorage signalling
(Annex 3: Sketches 53, 54, 55)
1. Parking buildings, whose anchors are wet in such a way that anchors, anchor cables or anchor chains may pose a danger to navigation, shall carry at night in addition to the lamps prescribed by the other provisions of this Regulation:
an additional white ordinary lamp, visible from all sides, placed approximately 1.00 m below the lamp prescribed in section 3.20, number 1, or, where two parking lamps are shown, below the lamp closest to the anchor.
2. When, in the cases referred to in section 3.23, anchors are wet in such a way that they may pose a danger to navigation, the parking lamp located closest to these anchors must be replaced by two ordinary white lights, visible from all sides, overlayed at approximately 1.00 m from one side.
3. In the cases referred to in Figures 1 and 2 above, each of these anchors shall be reported at night and day by a yellow radar reflector float.
4. When anchors, cables or anchor chains of floating equipment may pose a danger to navigation, they must be reported:
at night: by a radar reflector float with an ordinary white light visible from all sides;
daytime: by a yellow float with radar reflector.
Section III
Article 3.27
Report of the control authorities ' buildings
(Annex 3: Sketch 56)
The buildings of the control authorities can, to be known, show, at night and day, a sparkling blue fire. The same is true for fire services buildings, when they are going to rescue, and for rescue vessels operating with the general authorization of the competent authority.
Article 3.28
Additional marking of special transport as well as floating buildings and equipment carrying out work in the waterway
(Annex 3: Sketch 57)
Special transport, as well as buildings and floating equipment that carry out work, surveys or measures in the waterway, may show, in order to attract the attention and authorization of the competent authorities, at night and day, in addition to the marking prescribed by the other provisions of this Regulation:
a scintillating yellow ordinary lamp visible from all sides or a scintillating yellow light visible from all sides.
Article 3.29
Whirlpool protection
(Annex 3: Sketches 58)
1. Buildings, floating equipment and floating establishments on or off the road or in parking that wish to be protected from the whistle caused by the passage of other floating buildings or equipment may show, without prejudice to the signage that is applicable to them under the provisions of the other articles of this chapter:
at night:
a red ordinary lamp and a white ordinary lamp, or a red light lamp and a white light lamp, placed approximately 1,00 m above each other, the red lamp above, in a place such that these lamps are clearly visible and cannot be confused with other lamps;
day:
a pavilion whose upper half is red and the lower half white, placed in an appropriate place and at a height as visible from all sides. This pavilion can be replaced by two bunk pavilions with a red upper and a white lower.
The pavilions can be replaced by panels of the same color.
2. Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 3.25 and 3.28, only have the right to use the marking referred to in Figure 1 above:
(a) buildings, floating equipment and floating establishments that are severely damaged or engaged in a rescue operation, as well as vessels unable to operate;
(b) buildings, floating equipment and floating establishments with written authorization from the competent authorities.
Article 3.30
Distress signs
(Annex 3: Sketch 59)
1. When a vessel in distress wants to seek help with visual signals, it can show:
at night:
a circularly agitated fire;
day:
a red flag or any other appropriate circularly agitated object.
2. These signals replace or supplement the sound signals referred to in section 4.04.
Article 3.31
Report of the ban on access on board
(Annex 3: Sketch 60)
1. If other regulatory provisions prohibit access on board persons who do not belong to the service, this prohibition must be reported by signs, having the form of a disc, white, bordered with red, with red diagonal and bearing, in black, the image of a pedestrian.
These panels must be placed, as required, on board or on board.
By derogation from item 3.03, their diameter shall be approximately 0.60 m.
2. These panels must be illuminated as necessary to be perfectly visible at night.
Article 3.32
smoking ban, use light
or unprotected fire
(Annex 3: Sketch 61)
1. If other regulatory provisions prohibit
(a) smoking,
(b) to use unprotected light or fire, on board this prohibition shall be marked by panels, having the form of a disc, white, bordered with red, with red diagonal and bearing the image of a cigarette from which smoke is released. These panels must be placed, as required, on board or on board. By derogation from the number 3 of Article 3.03, their diameter shall be approximately 0.60 m.
2. These panels must be illuminated as necessary to be perfectly visible at night.
Article 3.33
Side parking ban signal
(Annex 3: Sketch 62)
1. If other regulatory provisions or special requirements of the competent authorities prohibit to park laterally near a building, for example because of the nature of the cargo, the vessel shall be on the bridge in the longitudinal axis:
a square panel at the bottom of a triangle.
This square sign must be white bordered with red on both sides and carry a red diagonal from left to right at the bottom and the "P" character in black in the middle.
The triangle shall, on both sides, be white and bear, in black numbers, the distance in meters on which parking is prohibited.
2. At night, the panels must be illuminated so that they are perfectly visible on both sides of the building.
3. This section does not apply to buildings, pushed convoys and couple formations referred to in section 3.21.
Article 4.01
General
1. Where sound signals other than strokes or flies of bells are provided by the requirements of this Regulation, such sound signals shall be issued
(a) on board the motorized buildings, with the exception of small craft by means of sound warnings mechanically positioned sufficiently high, cleared forward and as much as possible backwards;
(b) on board non-motorized vessels and small craft by means of an appropriate sound warning, trumpet or horn.
2. The sound signals of the motorized buildings must be accompanied by signals synchronized with them; these light signals will be yellow, clear and visible from all sides. This provision does not apply to small craft or to beating or stealing bells.
3. When buildings are carried on a convoy, the prescribed sound signals must be given only by the building on which the driver of the convoy is located, in the case of a convoy towed by the motorized building at the head of the convoy.
4. A bell flight must have a duration of about four seconds. It can be replaced by a series of metal blows on the same duration.
Article 4.02
Use of sound signals
1. Without prejudice to the other provisions of these Regulations, any vessel, with the exception of small craft, shall make use, if necessary, of the signals set out in Appendix 6 to these Regulations.
2. Small craft may, if necessary, issue the general signals in section A of Schedule 6 to these Regulations.
Article 4.03
Prohibited sound signs
1. The use of sound signals other than those mentioned in these Regulations or the use of the signals referred to in conditions other than those prescribed or permitted by these Regulations is prohibited.
2. However, for communication between buildings or between a building and the land, the use of other sound signals is permitted provided that they do not confuse the signals mentioned in this Regulation.
Article 4.04
Distress signs
1. When a building wants to ask for help (building in distress, man fallen to the water, etc.) with sound signals, it can emit bell flies or repeated prolonged sounds.
2. These signals replace or supplement the visual signals referred to in section 3.30.
Section II
Article 4.05
Radiotelephone
1. Any radiotelephone installation on board a building or a floating establishment must be in accordance
a) the regional arrangement for radiotelephone service on inland waterways and
(b) Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 9 March 1999 concerning hertzian equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and mutual recognition of their compliance (JOCE No. L. 91, p. 10)
and be used in accordance
(c) the provisions of the arrangement referred to in (a) above, which are explained in the radiotelephone guide for inland navigation (Article 1.10, Figure 1, letter (m)),
(d) to the provisions of these Regulations and
(e) the additional national operating requirements, if applicable.
Radiotelephone links (advertising and communications) must be held in the language of the country in which the radiotelephone station begins the radiotelephone conversation.
2. Motorized buildings, with the exception of small craft, ferries and floating equipment, can only be operated when equipped with two radiotelephone facilities in good working condition. On the way, the radiotelephony facilities of the boat-boat-boat networks and nautical information must be in a position to issue and receive. The nautical information network can only be left for a short time, the time to issue or receive information on other routes.
3. Motorized floating trays and appliances can only navigate if they are equipped with a radiotelephone installation in good working condition. On the way, the radiotelephone installation must always be in a position to emit and receive on the boat-boat network. This network can only be left for a short period of time to issue or receive information on other routes.
Paragraphs 1 and 2 are also applicable to floating vessels and equipment in operation.
4. Any building equipped with a radiotelephone installation must be announced on track 10 before it enters sections where visibility is bad, in narrow passages or in bridge openings. It must give, on alloties to the boat-boat-boat network and nautical information the information necessary to the safety of navigation.
5. Panel B.11 (Annex 7) indicates the requirement of the competent authority to use radiotelephone.
Section III
Article 4.06
Radar
1. Buildings can only use radar
(a) that they are equipped with a radar installation adapted to the requirements of inland navigation and in accordance with the directive referred to in 4.05, number 1, 1st sentence, letter (b), and a device indicating the speed of the vessel's girth. This also applies to Inland ECDIS devices whose system can be used for the conduct of the building with superimposed radar image (navigation mode). These devices shall be in good working condition and, from the point of view of the technical safety of the vessel, of a type approved by the competent authorities. However, vessels not flying freely are not required to be equipped with a girth speed indicator;
(b) that a person holding a radar licence issued under the Radar Patent Regulations or an equivalent degree is on board; However, radar may be used for exercise purposes, by good visibility, even in the absence of such a person on board.
Small craft must also be equipped with a radiotelephone installation in good working condition for the boat-boat network.
2. In pushed convoys and in couple formations, the requirements of the number 1 above apply only to the building on which the conductor of the convoy or training is located.
Article 5.01
Signals
1. Appendix 7 to this Regulation defines the signals of prohibition, obligation, restriction, recommendation and indication placed by the competent authority in the interest of safety and good order of navigation. It defines at the same time the meaning of these signals.
2. Without prejudice to the other provisions of these Regulations, drivers shall comply with the requirements and take into account the recommendations or indications that are brought to their knowledge by the signals referred to in Figure 1 above which are placed on the waterway or on its shores.
Article 5.02
Bali
1. Appendix 8 to this Regulation defines the marking that may be put in place to facilitate navigation. It also specifies under what conditions the different marking marks are used.
2. Annex 8 to this Regulation also defines the signals used for the marking of temporary highlands and obstacles.
Article 6.01
Sailing
The navigation of sailing vessels other than small craft is permitted only by day, on special authorization of the competent authority.
Article 6.02
Mutual behaviour of small craft
and other buildings
1. Insulated small craft and towed or coupled convoys composed only of small craft are required to leave all other vessels the space necessary to continue their journey and to manoeuvre; they cannot demand that they depart in their favor.
2. The provisions of sections 6.04, 6.05, 6.07, 6.08, number 1, 6.10, 6.11 and 6.12 with the exception of sign B.1, do not apply to small craft, towed convoys and couple formations referred to in number 1 above or in respect of them. Vessels that are not small craft are not required to apply the provisions of sections 6.09, number 2, 6.13, 6.14 and 6.16 with respect to small craft, towed convoys and couple formations referred to in number 1 above.
Article 6.02 bis
Specific road rules
small craft
1. Motorized small craft must be removed from the non-motorized small craft route.
2. The small boats that are not motorized or sailing must deviate from the road of the small boats.
3. Two small motorized craft whose roads cross so that there may be danger of collision must be avoided as follows:
(a) when they follow roads directly opposite or about opposite, each of them shall come to starboard to pass to port of the other;
(b) when they follow different routes that cross, the small craft that sees the other by starboard shall depart from the road of the latter; this provision does not impede the application of sections 6.13, 6.14 and 6.16.
4. Two sailboats whose roads cross in such a way that there may be danger of collision must be avoided as follows:
(a) when each of the vessels receives the wind from a different edge, the one that receives the port wind shall depart from the other;
(b) when the two boats receive the wind from the same wind, the wind shall deviate from the road of the wind;
(c) if a vessel that receives the port wind sees another vessel in the wind and cannot determine with certainty whether the other vessel receives the port or starboard wind, the first shall depart from the other road.
4. Sailing boat-boats exceed the other wind-boats. The side from which the wind comes must be considered to be the side opposite to the brewing edge of the large-car.
5. A sailboat that pulls edges shall not maneuver in such a way as to force a small craft, which follows the shoreline on its starboard, to depart.
6. Without prejudice to the provisions of articles 1.04, 1.06, 6.20 and 8.01 bis, motorized small craft must, in the right of swimming and camping, reduce their speed, while retaining their manoeuvrability, so that people on or in water are not endangered. Small craft should not, by their conduct, put others in danger or embarrass them or bother them more than the circumstances impose. Without prejudice to the complementary national requirements of the Moselle River States and outside of the water bodies indicated by sign E.22 where the practice of the aquatic motorcycle is permitted, the aquatic motorcycles must follow a clearly recognizable right road.
Section II
Article 6.03
General principles
1. Crossing or overtaking is permitted only when the fairway has sufficient width for simultaneous passage, taking into account all local circumstances and movements of other buildings.
2. When the vessels navigate in convoy, the signals prescribed by articles 6.04, 6.10 and 6.29 shall be shown or emitted only by the vessel on which the driver of the convoy or of the couple formation is located, in the case of a convoy towed by the motorized building at the head of the convoy.
3. In the event of crossing or overtaking, buildings that follow roads that exclude any collision hazard shall not alter their road or speed in a way that may cause collision hazard to arise.
Article 6.04
Growth: Standard Rules
(Annex 3: Sketch 63)
1. In the event of a crossing, the amounts shall, taking into account the local circumstances and movements of the other buildings, reserve an appropriate route to the swallows.
2. The amounts that leave the route of the swallows to port do not give any signal.
3. The amounts that leave the route of the swallows to starboard shall, in due course, show to starboard:
(a) at night:
a sparkling white light that can be served with a clear blue sign;
(b) Day:
a clear blue sign served with a sparkling white light.
The blue panel must be lined with a white strip of at least 5 cm wide; the chassis and the tringlerie as well as the fan of the sparkling fire must be of dark shade.
These signals must be visible from the front and back and be shown until the passage is completed. It is forbidden to keep them beyond unless they want to manifest the intention of continuing to let go of the swallows to starboard.
4. As soon as it is to be feared that the intentions of the amounts were not understood by the swallows, the amounts must emit:
"a short sound" when the crossing is on the port
or
"two short sounds" when the crossing is on starboard.
5. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 6.05, swallows shall follow the road indicated by the amounts in accordance with the above provisions; they shall repeat the visual signals referred to in Figure 3 above and the sound signals referred to in Figure 4 above which are shown or emitted by the amounts to them.
Article 6.05
Growth: Derogations to normal rules
1. By derogation from the provisions of Article 6.04 the following categories of buildings:
(a) downstream passenger vessels serving on a regular basis and whose maximum authorized passenger capacity is not less than 300 persons, when they wish to land a landing on the shoreline of the upright buildings,
(b) towed convoys that, to turn upstream, want to go along a specified bank,
have the right to request that the amounts change the route they reserve to them, according to section 6.04, if that road is not appropriate to them. However, they can only demand it if they have ascertained that it is safe to give them satisfaction.
2. In this case, swallows must use the following signals in a timely manner:
―if they want the crossing to port, they must emit "a short sound", and,
―if they want the crossing to starboard, they must emit "two short sounds" and, in addition, show the visual signals referred to in section 6.04, number 3.
3. The amounts must then meet the request of the swallows and provide confirmation as follows:
– if the crossing is to be done on the port, they must emit a "short sound" and, in addition, delete the visual signals referred to in number 3 of section 6.04, and
―if the crossing is to be performed on starboard, they must emit "two short sounds" and, in addition, show the visual signals referred to in section 6.04, number 3.
4. As soon as it is to be feared that the intentions of the swallows have not been understood by the amounts, the swallows must repeat the sound signals provided in Figure 2 above.
Article 6.06
(not applicable)
Article 6.07
Close passages
1. To avoid, to the extent possible, a cross in sectors or places where the fairway does not have a sufficient width for such a cross (small passing), the following rules apply:
(a) all buildings must pass through narrow passages as soon as possible, provided that the overtaking is prohibited;
(b) in the case where the scope is restricted, the buildings must, before embarking on a narrow passage, emit "a protracted sound"; in case of need, especially when the narrow passage is long, they must repeat that signal during the passage;
(c) the amounts shall, when they find that an swallow is about to enter into a narrow passage, stop at the end of that passage until the downstream buildings have crossed it;
(d) where an upbound convoy is already engaged in a narrow passage, the swallows must, as far as possible, stop at the upstream of this passage until the amounts have crossed it; the same obligation rests with insulated vessels swallowing an insulated building rising.
2. In the event that the crossing in a narrow passage has become inevitable, the buildings must take all possible measures to ensure that the crossing takes place in a place and under conditions of minimum danger.
Article 6.08
Forbidden cruise
inland waterway signals
1. When approaching the sectors indicated by panel A.4 (Annex 7) the rules of section 6.07 are applicable.
2. If, in order to avoid any crossing in a particular sector, the competent authorities impose the alternating single-way crossing
the crossing prohibition is indicated by a general signal A.1 (Annex 7),
the passage authorization is indicated by a general signal E.1 (Appendix 7).
Depending on local circumstances, the crossing ban signal may be announced by sign B.8 (Appendix 7) as an advanced signal.
Article 6.09
Overrun: general provisions
1. Overtaking is permitted only if the catcher has ascertained that this manoeuvre may take place safely.
2. The catcher must facilitate overtaking as much as necessary and possible. It must decrease its speed when necessary to ensure that the overtaking is carried out safely and that its duration is short enough so that the movement of other buildings is not hindered.
Article 6.10
Overrun: conduct and signals of buildings
1. The catcher may exceed port or starboard of the catcher. If the overtaking is possible without the catcher having to change his way, the catcher does not give any sound signal to the catcher.
2. When the overtaking cannot take place without the catcher moving away from his or her road or when it is fearful that the catcher did not perceive the catcher's intention to exceed and that it may result in a collision danger, the catcher must emit
(a) "two protracted sounds followed by two short sounds", if he wants to exceed by port of the catcher,
b) "two protracted sounds followed by a short sound", if he wants to go beyond the starboard of the catcher.
3. When the catcher can follow this request from the catcher, he must leave the space on the requested side, if necessary to the opposite side.
4. When the overtaking is not possible on the side requested by the catcher, but can be done on the opposite side, the catcher must emit
(a) “a short sound”, when the overtaking is possible by its port,
(b) “two short sounds”, when the overtaking is possible by its starboard.
The catcher who, under these conditions, still wants to exceed must emit
(c) "two short sounds" in case (a),
(d) "a short sound" in case (b).
The catcher must then leave the desired space on the side where the overtaking must take place, if necessary on the opposite side.
5. When the overtaking is impossible safely, the catcher must emit "five short sounds".
Article 6.11
Prohibited overrun
inland waterway signals
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 6.08, Figure 1, the exceedance is prohibited
(a) in general on areas defined by Panel A.2 (Appendix 7),
(b) between convoys, on areas defined by sign A.3 (annex 7). However, this prohibition does not apply when at least one of the convoys is a pushed convoy whose length does not exceed 110.00 m.
Section III
Article 6.12
Area navigation
where the road to follow is prescribed
1. On the areas indicated by one of the panels B.1, B.2a, B.2b, B.3a, B.3b, B.4a or B.4b (Annex 7), the buildings shall follow the road prescribed by that signal.
2. The amounts shall in no case hinder the walk of the swallows; especially when approaching panels B. 4(a) or B. 4(b) (Appendix 7), they must decrease their speed or even stop to allow the swallows to perform their manoeuvre.
Article 6.13
Transfer
1. The buildings can only be seen after ensuring that the movements of the other buildings, taking into account the provisions of Figures 2 and 3 below, allow the manoeuvre to be carried out safely and without these other buildings being forced to suddenly alter their road or speed.
2. If the proposed manoeuvre may or should require other buildings to deviate from their road or to change their speed, the vessel that wishes to transfer must, before turning, announce its manoeuvre in due time, emitting
a) "an extended sound followed by a short sound", if he wants to turn on starboard or
b) "a protracted sound followed by two short sounds," if he wants to turn to port.
3. The other buildings must, as much as necessary and possible, change their speed and road so that the turn can be made safely.
4. Any bend is prohibited on areas marked by sign A.8 (Appendix 7).
On the other hand, if there are areas marked by the E.8 panel (Annex 7), it is recommended that the driver choose one of these sectors to transfer the remaining bend subject to the requirements of this Article.
Article 6.14
Original driving
The provisions of section 6.13 also apply, with the exception of trays, in the case of vessels leaving their anchorage or mooring position without firing; However, the signals prescribed in Figure 2 of this section are replaced by the following:
“a short sound”, when buildings come on starboard, or
“two short sounds”, when the buildings come to port.
Article 6.15
Prohibition of engaging in intervals
between the elements of a towed convoy
It is forbidden to engage in intervals between elements of a towed convoy.
Article 6.16
Entry and exit of ports and tributaries
1. The buildings cannot exit a port or a tributary path and enter the main waterway or cross it or enter a port or a tributary path, only after they have ascertained that these manoeuvres can be carried out safely and without other buildings being forced to suddenly alter their road or speed. If an swallow is obliged to veer to the upstream to be able to enter a port or a scaling path, it must leave the priority to any amount that also wants to enter this port or route.
In some cases, routes considered to be affluent may be indicated by one of the signs E.9 or E.10 (Appendix 7).
2. Buildings, with the exception of ferries, shall, if the manoeuvre referred to in number 1 above may or must require other vessels to alter their road or speed, announce this manoeuvre by issuing, in due course,
(a) "three protracted sounds followed by a short sound", when, in order to enter or after the exit, they must head to starboard;
(b) "three protracted sounds followed by two short sounds", when, to enter or after the exit, they must go to port;
c) "three protracted sounds", when after the exit they want to cross the waterway. Before the end of the crossing, they must issue, if any:
"a protracted sound followed by a short sound", if they want to head to starboard or
"a protracted sound followed by two short sounds," if they want to head to port.
The other buildings must, as far as it is necessary, change their road and speed.
3. If, near the exit of a port or a tributary lane, one of the signs B.9a or B.9b (Annex 7) is placed, the vessels leaving the port or the tributary lane shall enter the main lane or cross it only if this manoeuvre does not require the vessels navigating on it to alter their road or speed.
4. A red light, signal A.1 (Appendix 7), supplemented by a white arrow (Appendix 7, Section II, Figure 2, letter c) means that the entry of the port or the traffic line located in the direction indicated by the arrow point is prohibited.
Article 6.17
Navigation at the same height,
ban on approaching a building
1. The buildings must navigate at the same height only if the available space allows it without any embarrassment or danger to navigation.
2. Except in the course of overtaking or crossing, it is prohibited to navigate less than 50.00 m from a vessel or convoy bearing the marking referred to in 3.14, Figure 2 or 3.
3. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 1.20, it is prohibited to carry on a vessel or floating equipment, to cling to it or to be allowed in its wake, without the express permission of its driver.
4. Water skiers and people practicing a nautical sport without using a building must be kept far enough from the floating buildings and equipment on the road as well as floating equipment at work.
Article 6.18
Prohibition of dragging the anchors,
cables or chains
1. It is forbidden to drag anchors, cables or chains.
2. This prohibition does not apply to drift-based navigation, when authorized, or to small movements at parking sites, loading and unloading places and in rades; However, it applies to these movements in the sectors indicated, in accordance with section 7.03, number 1, letter (b), by sign A.6 (Appendix 7).
Article 6.19
Driving navigation
1. Unless authorized by the competent authorities, drift navigation is prohibited.
2. This prohibition does not apply to small movements at parking sites, loading and unloading places, and in rades.
3. The buildings that let go down to the upstream with the forward running machine are considered as amounts and not as drifting.
Article 6.20
Remous
1. Buildings must adjust their speed to avoid creating whirlpools or suction effects that are likely to cause damage to floating buildings or equipment on the road or on the road. They must, in good time, decrease their speed, but do not fall below the speed required to govern safely and must also deviate as much as possible:
(a) in front of ports entrances;
(b) near the buildings that are moored at the shore or landing places, or are being loaded or unloaded;
(c) near the buildings that park in the usual parking areas;
(d) close to vessels not navigating freely;
(e) on the waterway sectors indicated by signal A.9 (annex 7).
2. Subject to the provisions of Article 1.04, vessels are not required to meet the requirements of Figure 1, 2nd sentence, letters (b) and (c), above with respect to small craft.
3. The right of buildings showing the marking prescribed in Article 3.25, Figure 1, letter (c),
and the law of buildings, floating equipment or floating establishments showing the marking prescribed in Article 3.29, Figure 1,
other buildings must reduce their speed as prescribed in Figure 1 above. They must also deviate as much as possible.
Article 6.21
Composition of convoys
1. Motorized vessels propelled a convoy shall have sufficient power to ensure the good manoeuvrability of the convoy.
A convoy or a couple training must be composed so that it can be locked in one time; in particular, its total width shall not exceed 11.45 m.
2. Any pushed convoy or any couple training whose length exceeds 86,00 m must be able to stop at the swallow, in good time, while remaining perfectly maneuverable during and after the stop.
The same requirement applies to any motorized vessel exceeding 86,00 m, unless the keel was laid before April 1, 1960.
3. Motorized vessels may not, except in the event of a rescue or assistance to a vessel in distress, be used for towing or pushing operations or for the propulsion of a couple formation only to the extent that such use is permitted in their visiting certificate.
The motorized building that ensures the main propulsion of a couple training must be on the starboard side of this formation.
4. Passenger vessels with passengers on board shall not sail with a couple; they shall not tow or be towed, except in the event that the dehaling of a damaged building requires it.
Article 6.22
Navigation interruption and disused sections
1. When the competent authorities indicate by a general signal A.1 (Annex 7) that navigation is interrupted, all vessels must stop before that signal.
2. Navigation on water with signage
(a) A.1a (Appendix 7) is prohibited to all vessels except for small non-motorized vessels;
(b) A.12 (Annex 7) is prohibited to all buildings using their own mechanical means of propulsion.
3. The prohibition referred to in 1 or 2 above also applies to floating materials.
4. People practicing a nautical sport without using a building are not allowed to use a waterway section behind a sign A.1.
5. Disused or restricted waterway sections may be marked by a series of two or more signs A.1, A.1a or A.12 or by a series of two or more yellow floats carrying these signs as lights. In this case, the prohibition in question concerns the waterway section located behind the right line of connecting these signals.
Article 6.22 bis
Navigation on the law of floating equipment at work
and unsuccessful or unsewn buildings
(Annex 3: Sketch 50 a, 50 b, 52)
It is prohibited to pass to the law of the buildings referred to in Article 3.25 on the side where they show the red light or red light prescribed in Article 3.25, Figure 1, Letters (b) and (d)
or
Panel A.1 (Appendix 7), red ball or red flag prescribed in Article 3.25, Figure 1, Letters (b) and (d).
Section IV
Article 6.23
baccalaureate rules
1. The ferries can only pass through the waterway after they have ascertained that the movement of the other buildings allows the crossing safely and without these other buildings being forced to suddenly alter their road or speed.
2. A ferry that does not fly freely must comply with the following rules:
(a) where it is not in service, it shall park at the place assigned to it by the competent authority. If no parking place has been assigned to him, he must park so that the fairway remains free;
(b) it shall not remain in the channel beyond the time required for its service.
Section V
Article 6.24
Bridge and dam crossing: generalities
1. In a bridge or dam opening, if the channel does not offer sufficient width for simultaneous passage, the rules of section 6.07 shall apply.
2. When a bridge or dam door opening
(a) signal A.10 (Appendix 7), navigation is prohibited in this opening outside the space between the two signs constituting this signal;
(b) signal D. 2 (Annex 7), it is recommended that navigation, for this opening, be held in the space between the two panels constituting this signal.
Article 6.25
Passage of fixed bridges
1. When certain fixed bridge openings are indicated by a general signal A.1 (Annex 7), these openings are prohibited for navigation.
2. When certain fixed bridge openings are indicated by:
(a) signal D. 1a (annex 7), or
(b) signal D. 1b (Appendix 7), placed above the opening, it is recommended to preferably use these openings.
If the pass is equipped with the marking referred to in (a) above, it is open to navigation coming in the other direction; if it is equipped with the signage referred to in (b) above, it is prohibited for navigation in the other direction.
3. When certain fixed bridge openings are reported in accordance with Figure 2 above, navigation can only use unreported openings at risk and risk.
Article 6.26
Passage of locks
and sports boat jokes
1. All buildings with a length of less than 18.00 m, a width of less than 3.30 m and a drawer of less than 1.50 m are required to borrow the lock. This obligation does not apply to passenger vessels with passengers on board.
2. The nacelles locks and the sports boat jokes can only be used by day. At night, their use is permitted only to local professional fishermen.
3. The buildings approaching a nacelles lock or a sports boat laugh must be held along the separation plate.
4. The valves and doors of the nacelles locks shall be operated by the users themselves in accordance with the instructions posted on site. The entrance and exit of the locks are allowed only after full opening of the doors. Users of the nacelles lock must take care of the sports boats coming out of the sports boat.
5. The sports boats for the Müden, Fankel, Enkirch, Zeltingen, Wintrich, Grevenmacher-Wellen and Stadtbredimus-Palzem dams must be operated by the users themselves in accordance with the instructions posted on site. The entrance to the gutter is only allowed as long as the lamp is green. Outside these periods, the fire is red. When the joke is not in service, the lights are off.
6. It is forbidden to disembark except to execute locking, to require the surveillance personnel or to carry a sports boat. In addition, it is forbidden during a portage to interfere with the maneuvering of the nacelles lock or the gyre for sports boats.
Article 6.27
Barriers
The passage of the dams is forbidden.
Article 6.28
Passage to locks
1. (a) Belong to the locks sector:
- locks and
― the water plans upstream and downstream of the locks that allow to fix the buildings, organize their order of passage and waiting, as well as to train and undo the convoys (before-door locks).
(b) The competent authorities may delineate the lock sector by derogating from the provisions of letter (a). In this case, it is reported by a white panel bordered with black and bearing, in black, the inscription "Stain Sector".
2. When approaching lock garages, buildings must slow down their march. If they cannot enter the lock immediately, they must, in case a B.5 panel (Appendix 7) is placed on the shore, stop below that panel. Buildings that do not want to go to the lock, must not enter the front-doors.
3. In the locks sector, buildings equipped with a radiotelephony installation allowing communications on the network of nautical information must be listened to on the alloty lane to the lock.
4. When approaching the lock sector and within this sector, any overtaking is prohibited. However, buildings and convoys awaiting locking outside the garages can be exceeded by buildings to be arranged in the garages. In this case, the outdated building or convoy keeps its locking tower.
5. In the locks, the anchors must be in a fully uplifted position; the same is true in garages, as long as they are not used.
6. When walking in the locks and entrances in the locks, the buildings must reduce their speed in such a way as to guarantee in any event a total stop using cables or ropes or other appropriate measures and to avoid any impact on doors or protective devices or against other floating buildings or equipment.
7. In the locks
(a) if limits are indicated on the wharves, the buildings shall be between these limits;
(b) during the filling and draining of the sas and until the exit is allowed, the buildings shall be moored and the mooring shall be ensured so as to prevent any shock from wharves, doors and protective devices or against other floating buildings or equipment;
(c) the use of defences, which must be floating when removable, is mandatory;
(d) it is prohibited for floating buildings and equipment to reject or leak water on land-fills or on other floating buildings or equipment;
(e) as soon as the building is moored and until the exit is allowed, it is prohibited to use the mechanical means of propulsion;
(f) small craft shall be kept away from other vessels.
8. The useful length of the locks between Stadtbredimus-Palzem and Coblence is 170.00 m (with the exception of the south lock of Coblence where it is 122.50 m). The useful length of locks is indicated by white marks.
The pushed convoys of more than 170.00 m and not exceeding 172.10 m can only pass the locks after authorization from the lock staff and taking into account the following particular precautions:
The pushed downstream convoys must first stop at 10.00 m from the downstream door protection cable and are allowed to move slowly to the special mark at the downstream head of the lock only after lifting the protection cable. The extreme limit of the length of the locks is indicated by red and white marks to the head upstream and to the head downstream of the lock.
9. In the locks sector, it is mandatory to maintain a minimum distance of 10.00 m with respect to vessels and convoys bearing the marking referred to in 3.14, Figure 1. However, this obligation does not apply to vessels and convoys that also carry this signal or to buildings referred to in section 3.14, Figure 7.
10. The vessels and convoys bearing the marking referred to in Article 3.14, Figure 2 or 3, are closed separately.
11. Vessels and convoys bearing the marking referred to in 3.14, Figure 1, are not enclosed with passenger vessels.
12. In order to ensure the safety and proper order of navigation, the speed of passage of locks or the full use of locks, lock staff may give additional instructions and derogatory instructions to the provisions of this Article. The buildings must, in locks and in lock garages, comply with these instructions.
Article 6.28 bis
Entrance and exit of locks
1. Access to a lock is set at night and day by visual signals placed on either side or side of the lock. These signals have the following meaning:
(a) two superimposed red lights: no access, no lock;
(b) an isolated red lamp or two juxtaposed red lamp: prohibited access, closed lock;
(c) extinction of one of the two juxtaposed red lights or a red lamp and a juxtaposed green lamp: forbidden access, lock in preparation for opening;
(d) an isolated green lamp or two juxtaposed green lamp: authorized access.
2. The release of a lock is set at night and day by the following visual signals:
(a) one or two red lights: prohibited output;
(b) one or two green lights: authorized output.
3. The red light(s) referred to in Figures 1 and 2 above may be replaced by a sign A.1 (Annex 7). The green light(s) referred to in these same numbers may be replaced by an E.1 panel (Appendix 7).
4. In the absence of fires and panels, access and exit of locks are prohibited except for special order of lock staff.
Article 6.29
Order of passage to locks
1. (a) The passage to the locks is done according to the order of arrival.
(b) Small craft may not require special locking. They must only enter the sas after being invited by the lock staff. In addition, when small craft are placed in common with other vessels, they must only enter the sail after them.
(c) However, lock staff may give derogatory instructions to ensure better use of the lock or, if necessary for safety reasons, to lock in isolation buildings carrying hazardous materials.
2. In derogation from the number 1.(a) above, and subject to the application of the number 1.(c) above, the right of passage shall be granted:
(a) buildings belonging to the navigation, fire, police and customs services of the riparian States and moving for urgent service reasons;
(b) buildings to which the competent authority has expressly granted this right.
3. The passing priority referred to in paragraph 2.(b) above is granted only:
(a) buildings that, because of the nature of their loading or for security reasons, require accelerated locking;
(b) buildings involved in rescue operations or other urgent operations;
(c) passenger vessels with a capacity of at least 100 passengers and carrying out a regular service.
There is a regular service when a passenger vessel carries out at least four trips during a four-week period (in respect of hotel vessels, at least four trips per tourist season) on specific routes with fixed stops following a schedule established in accordance with the competent authority and brought to the attention of the boatmaster at least one month in advance. In the event of further modification of this schedule, the same procedure would be applied.
The priority of passage is only valid for locks that are scheduled for passage according to the approved schedule.
4. The passenger priority may be exceptionally granted by the competent authority to passenger vessels not meeting all the conditions specified in number 3(c) in one of the following two cases:
(a) if the passenger vessel is locked at the same time as another passenger vessel performing a regular service and beneficiary of the certificate referred to in Figure 2 (b);
(b) if the total number of priority passenger vessel locks does not exceed four one day in each direction to a specified lock.
The schedule of each special trip shall be approved by the competent authority and brought to the attention of the vessel. Attestation is only valid for locks that are scheduled to pass through the approved travel schedule.
5. The priority of the passage referred to in Figure 2 (b) above confers on the building that enjoys the right to be locked before other buildings pending locking, since this priority building is less than 1,500 m from the lock, either seen by the locker or announced its position by radiotelephone. It does not confer on it, in any case, the right to be locked at one hour in advance.
6. Each lock upstream or downstream of buildings that used their priority right must be followed by locking in the same direction without the right of priority.
With respect to vessels or pushed convoys of more than 1,500 tonnes of heavy cargo carrying on a schedule established in accordance with the competent authority, the priority right of passenger vessels may be exercised only once at each lock.
7. To the extent that they are unable to borrow nacelles locks or ramps, the buildings referred to in section 6.26, Figure 1, above will only be locked in a group or at the same time as other buildings.
In no case shall they be entitled to a priority right.
Section VI
Article 6.30
Any building being routed in time
1. All buildings must use the radar.
2. All buildings must adapt their speed in time to reduce the visibility, presence and movement of other buildings and local circumstances. They must give the other buildings the necessary information for security.
3. When they stop over time, the buildings must clear the fairway as much as possible.
4. In time, small craft can only be navigated if they are also on track 10 or on any other route designated by the competent authority.
5. In closed weather, buildings and convoys that cannot use the radar must immediately return to a parking area.
Article 6.31
Parking buildings
1. In closed times, buildings stationing in the fairway or near the inland waterway must adjust their radiotelephony device during parking. As soon as they perceive by radiotelephone that other buildings are approaching or as soon as and as long as they perceive the sound signal prescribed in section 6.32, Figure 2, letter (d), or in section 6.33, letter (b), issued by a vessel approaching, they must indicate their position by radiotelephony.
2. The buildings referred to in Figure 1 that cannot use the radiotelephone must give a bell flare as soon as and as long as they see the sound signal prescribed in section 6.32, Figure 2, letter (d), or section 6.33, letter (b), issued by a building approaching. These sound signals must be repeated at intervals of not more than one minute.
3. The requirements of Figures 1 and 2 above do not apply to pushed vessels of a pushed convoy. In the case of a couple training, they only apply to a single building of the training.
Article 6.32
Radar vessels
1. Vessels may only navigate the radar as long as a person is permanently present in the wheelhouse at the same time in one of the documents provided for in the Moselle Buildings Regulations for the category of the vessel being driven and a radar licence issued under the Radar Licences Regulations or an equivalent degree, as well as a second person sufficiently aware of the use of the radar.
However, for buildings with a certificate of visit or a document taking place mentions that they are approved for radar conduct by a single person, the second person is not required to be permanently in the wheelhouse.
2. When crossing and passing near a building, the following provisions apply:
(a) as soon as a vessel moving up to the radar sees on the radar screen buildings coming in the opposite direction or when it approaches an area where buildings not yet visible on the radar screen may be located, it shall indicate by radiotelephony to buildings coming in the opposite direction its class, name, direction of traffic as well as its position and agree with these buildings of a crossing procedure;
(b) any downstream navigating to the radar, as soon as it sees on the radar screen a vessel whose position or heading could pose a danger and which did not contact by radiotelephone, must notify the said building of this dangerous situation by radiotelephony and agree with it of a crossing procedure;
(c) all radar vessels that are called by radiotelephone shall respond by radiotelephone indicating their category, name, direction of movement and position. They must then agree on a crossing procedure with buildings coming in the opposite direction, however small craft should indicate only to which side they are deviating;
(d) where the radiotelephone contact cannot be established with the opposite vessels, the radar vessel shall:
∙ emit "longed sound" and repeat this sound as necessary;
– reduce speed and stop if necessary.
This provision also applies to all vessels navigating to radar in relation to buildings stationed near the waterway and with which no radiotelephone contact can be established.
3. In convoys and in couple formations, the requirements of numbers 1 and 2 above apply only to the building on which the conductor of the convoy or training is located.
Article 6.33
Radar-free buildings
Vessels and convoys that cannot use the radar and that must go to a parking area must observe the following provisions during the trip to that location:
(a) They must navigate as much as possible on the waterway side.
(b) Any isolated building and any building on board which the conductor of a convoy is located must emit as a fog signal "a prolonged sound"; this signal must be repeated at intervals of not more than one minute. A vigy must be present at the front of the building; for the convoys, this vigy is required only on the first unit. It must be either within the reach or hearing of the driver of the building or the convoy, or in connection with the driver by a phone link.
(c) As soon as a building is called by radiotelephone by another building, it must respond by radiotelephony by indicating its category, name, direction of traffic and position and specifying that it does not navigate the radar and that it is looking for a parking space. It must then agree on a crossing procedure with the building coming in the opposite direction.
(d) As soon as a building receives the protracted sound from another building with which no radiotelephone contact can be established, it shall:
- if it is near a shore, tighten this shore and, if necessary, stop there until the passage is made;
– if it is moving from one bank to another, clear the channel as quickly as possible.
Article 7.01
General principles for parking
1. Without prejudice to the other provisions of these Regulations, floating buildings and equipment shall choose their place of parking as close to the shore as they permit from water and local circumstances and, in any case, so as not to hinder navigation.
2. Where, due to the conditions of the fairway, navigation must take place less than 40.00 m from the shore, it is permissible for the buildings to park on board only if the total width of the vessel does not exceed 11.45 m.
3. Regardless of the specific conditions imposed by the competent authorities, floating establishments must be placed in such a way as to leave the fairway free for navigation.
4. Parking floating buildings, convoys and equipment, as well as floating establishments, must be anchored or moored in such a way that they cannot change their position and thus constitute a danger or a discomfort to other buildings, especially given the wind and the variations in the water level, as well as the succion and the whirlpool.
Article 7.02
No parking
1. Floating buildings and equipment, as well as floating establishments, cannot park:
(a) in sections of the inland waterway where parking is generally prohibited;
(b) in sectors designated by the competent authorities;
(c) in the areas indicated by sign A.5 (Annex 7): the prohibition then applies to the side of the track where the sign is placed;
(d) under decks and under high voltage electrical lines;
(e) in narrow passages within the meaning of Article 6.07 and in their vicinity, as well as in the areas which as a result of the parking would become narrow passages, as well as in those areas;
(f) the entrances and exits of the tributaries;
(g) on ferry routes;
(h) on the road that the buildings follow to land or leave;
(i) in the bend areas indicated by sign E.8 (annex 7);
(j) laterally to a building bearing the sign prescribed in Article 3.33 at a distance in metres below the figure indicated in the white triangle of the sign;
(k) on the water bodies indicated by sign A.5.1 (Appendix 7) and whose width, counted from the panel, is indicated in metres on the panel;
(l) in the upstream and downstream fronts of the locks, except the locking buildings. However, locking staff may allow night parking or time spent in downstream fronts, provided that this does not interfere with the passage of other buildings.
2. In sections where parking is prohibited under the provisions of Figure 1, letters (a) to (d), above, floating buildings and equipment, as well as floating establishments, can only park at the parking areas indicated by one of the signs E.5 to E.7 (Annex 7), under the conditions defined in Articles 7.03 to 7.06.
Article 7.03
Anchorage
1. Floating buildings and materials, as well as floating establishments, cannot anchor:
(a) in sections of the waterway where anchorage is generally prohibited;
(b) in the areas indicated by sign A.6 (Annex 7): the prohibition then applies on the side of the track where the sign is placed.
2. In sections where anchorage is prohibited under the provisions of Figure 1, letter (a), above, floating buildings and equipment, as well as floating establishments, may be anchored only in areas indicated by Panel E.6 (Appendix 7) and only on the side of the track where the sign is placed.
Article 7.04
Amarrage
1. The floating buildings and equipment, as well as the floating establishments, cannot be attached to the shore:
(a) in sections of the waterway where mooring is generally prohibited;
(b) in the areas indicated by sign A.7 (Annex 7): the prohibition then applies to the side of the track where the sign is placed.
2. In sections where shoreline mooring is prohibited under the provisions of Figure 1, letter (a), above, floating buildings and equipment, as well as floating establishments, can only be arranged in areas indicated by one of the E.7 or E.7.1 (Appendix 7) and only on the side of the track where the sign is placed.
3. It is forbidden to use for the mooring or dehaling of trees, rails, posts, terminals, columns, metal ladders, handrails, etc.
Article 7.05
Parking areas
1. At the parking areas where the sign E.5 is placed (Annex 7), the floating buildings and equipment can only park on the side of the track where the sign is placed.
2. At the parking areas where the sign E.5.1 (Appendix 7) is placed, the floating buildings and equipment can be parked only on the water plane whose width, counted from the panel, is indicated in meters on it.
3. At the parking areas where the E.5.2 panel is placed (Annex 7), the floating buildings and equipment can be parked only on the water plane between the two distances indicated in metres on the panel. These distances are counted from the panel.
4. At the parking areas where the sign E.5.3 (Appendix 7) is placed, the floating buildings and equipment cannot, on the side of the track where the sign is placed, park on board in more numbers than that indicated in Roman numerals on the panel.
Article 7.06
Special parking areas
1. At the parking areas where one of the signs E.5.4 to E.5.15 (Appendix 7) is located only buildings for which the panel applies.
2. In the parking areas, in the absence of other requirements, the buildings are required to sail on board on the shore, on the side of the road where the panel is placed.
Article 7.07
Minimum parking distance during transport
of Certain Hazardous Materials
1. The minimum distance between two buildings, pushed convoys and parking couple formations is:
(a) 10.00 m if any of these bears the marking referred to in Article 3.14, Figure 1;
(b) 50.00 m if any of these bears the marking referred to in Article 3.14, Figure 2;
(c) 100.00 m if any of these bears the marking referred to in Article 3.14, Figure 3.
2. The obligation referred to in number 1, letter (a), above does not apply:
(a) to buildings, pushed convoys and couple formations that also carry this marking;
(b) buildings that do not carry this marking but have a certificate of approval under 8.1.8 of the ADNR and comply with the security provisions applicable to a building referred to in 3.14, Figure 1.
3. In special cases, the competent authority may grant waivers.
Article 7.08
Guard and surveillance
1. An operational guard shall be permanently on board the parking buildings that carry a signal referred to in 3.14. However, the competent authorities may exempt from this obligation parking buildings in the basins of the ports.
2. An operational guard must be permanently on board passenger vessels in parking when there are passengers.
3. All other buildings, floating equipment and floating establishments must be parked monitored by a person who is able to intervene quickly in the event of need, unless such monitoring is not necessary in the context of local circumstances or the competent authorities dispense with it.
4. If there is no driver, the responsibility for the establishment of the guard and supervision rests with the owner, shipowner or other operator.
Article 8.1
Maximum dimensions of buildings and convoys
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 9.04, buildings and convoys shall not exceed the following dimensions:
(a) the width of a building shall not exceed 11.45 m;
(b) the length of a building whose keel was laid after 31 December 1962 shall not exceed 110.00 m;
(c) the total length of a pushed convoy shall not exceed 172.10 m;
(d) the total length of a towed convoy shall not exceed 250.00 m.
With respect to the cases referred to in letters (a) and (b) above, the competent authority may grant exemptions or issue special authorization for the journey to be travelled.
Article 8.01 bis
Speed of walking
Without prejudice to the provisions of sections 1.04 and 1.06, the maximum permissible speed is generally fixed relative to the shore at 30 km/h, including in the wild parts of the river in French section, and at 15 km/h in the French section.
This speed limitation does not apply:
(a) small craft navigating in the free sections, as long as the visible water plan in the direction of walking is free to use all. In this case, the speed of the bank shall not exceed 60 km/h;
(b) small craft towing one or more skiers on authorized water bodies and reported to that effect by sign E.17;
(c) buildings with special permission, issued by the competent authority as part of a demonstration authorized in accordance with the provisions of Article 1.23;
(d) to the buildings of the control authorities bearing the marking provided for in Article 3.27;
(e) waterway sections for which the competent authority has temporarily or permanently authorized a maximum derogatory speed.
Article 8.02
Removal of pushed convoy or pushed convoy
1. The towing of a pushed convoy is forbidden.
However, pushed convoys may be towed in the event of exceptional local circumstances and when this does not hinder navigation.
2. The towing by a pushed convoy is prohibited unless special authorization is issued by the competent authorities of the sectors to be covered.
Article 8.03
Expanded facilities including buildings
other than pushing barges
A pushed convoy may include buildings other than pushing barges when the pusher's certificate of visit and the pushed building expressly admits it.
These buildings must then be coupled laterally to the pusher's set and one or two arrow pushing barges, unless their visiting certificate or document holding place specifies that they are suitable to be pushed.
Article 8.04
Expanded convoys including ship barges
Ship barges cannot be placed at the head of a pushed convoy. However, the competent authorities for the sectors to be covered may grant exemptions.
Article 8.05
Move of pushing barges
outside of a pushed convoy
The movement of pushing barges outside a pushed convoy can only be done on short distances and in accordance with the requirements of the competent authority or with the authorization of the competent authority.
Article 8.06
Couplings of pushed convoys
1. The couplings of a pushed convoy must ensure its rigidity.
2. Couplings must be able to be done and undo in a simple and easy way.
3. The couplings shall be maintained uniformly tense by appropriate devices, preferably by special winches.
4. For pushed convoys of a width of less than or equal to 11.45 m, consisting of a pushing building and a pushed building, the rigid connection between the two buildings can be replaced by a mating system approved by a visiting commission that allows a controlled joint of the convoy.
Article 8.07
Telephone liaison on convoys
1. (not applicable).
2. The pushed convoys whose length exceeds 110.00 m shall be connected by radiotelephone with the lock on the lanes of the nautical information network that is communicated by the competent authorities, arriving in the following areas of the Moselle:
PK 16,00 at PK 25,00 (Lehmen).
from PK 31.30 to PK 40.20 (Müden).
PK 52.50 at PK 63.40 (Fankel).
PK 69.20 at PK 81.60 (St. Aldegund).
PK 98.50 at PK 106.60 (Enkirch).
PK 120.00 at PK 126.50 (Zeltingen).
PK 137,00 at PK 143.80 (Wintrich).
from PK 158.20 to PK 171.00 (Detzem).
from PK 191.00 to PK 200.00 (Treats).
PK 206,00 at PK 219,00 (Grevenmacher-Wellen).
PK 223.00 at PK 234,00 (Stadtbredimus-Palzem).
PK 237,00 at PK 245,50 (Apach).
PK 253.00 at PK 263.00 (Koenigsmacker).
PK 264,00 at PK 275,00 (Thionville).
PK 272,00 at PK 282,00 (Orne).
PK 280.50 at PK 288.50 (Talange).
PK 292,00 at PK 301.50 (Metz).
and stay on reception until arrival at the lock.
In addition, pushed convoys are required to remind by radiotelephone the Stadtbredimus-Palzem lock upon arrival at PK 226,00.
3. In any case where the length of a pushed convoy exceeds 110.00 m, there must be a phone link in both directions between the pusher wheelhouse and the front of the convoy.
4. In the case of couple formations composed of motorized buildings, a phone link must be carried out in both directions between the steering stations of the two buildings.
5. In the case of towed convoys, a phone link must be carried out in both directions between the steering stations of all buildings.
6. The boat-boat network should not be used to carry out the phone link.
Article 8.08
Circulation of people aboard pushed convoys
The movement of people on a pushed convoy must be easy and safe. In addition, openings that may arise between the units of the convoy shall be provided with appropriate protective devices.
Article 8.09
(not applicable)
Article 8.10
Signal "don't approach"
1. The "do not approach" signal shall be triggered, in the event of an incident or accident that may result in the release of dangerous substances carried, by:
(a) tank vessels showing the marking referred to in Figures 1 or 2 of Article 3.14
and
(b) buildings showing the marking referred to in section 3.14, number 3,
if the crew is unable to eliminate the hazards resulting from it for people or for navigation.
This requirement does not apply to push barges and other non-motorized buildings. However, when they are part of a convoy, the signal "do not approach" must be given by the building on which the driver of the convoy is located.
2. The "don't approach" signal consists of an audible and luminous signal.
The sound signal consists of the continuous repetition, for at least 15 consecutive minutes, of a short sound followed by a prolonged sound. The sound signal must be accompanied by the synchronized light signal referred to in section 4.01, number 2.
After triggering, the operation of the "do not approach" signal must be automatic; the command must be designed in such a way that an involuntary signal is impossible.
3. Buildings that perceive the signal "don't approach" must take all necessary measures to avoid threatening danger. In particular:
(a) if they are heading to the danger zone, they must be kept as far as possible from the hazard zone and, if the situation requires, be fired;
(b) if they have already crossed the place where the danger is, they must continue their journey at the highest possible speed.
4. On board the buildings referred to in number 3 above, immediately:
(a) close all windows and openings on the outside;
(b) turn off any unprotected light and fire;
(c) quit smoking;
(d) to stop auxiliary machines whose operation is not required;
e) generally avoid any formation of sparks.
In the event of a shutdown of the building, all engines and auxiliary machines still in service must be stopped or unplugged.
5. The number 4 above is also applicable to buildings that park near the hazard area when the signal is perceived "don't approach"; If necessary, the building should be abandoned.
6. In the application of the measures referred to in Figures 3 to 5 above, the current and wind direction shall be taken into account.
7. The measures referred to in Figures 3 to 6 above must also be taken by the buildings if the "not approach" signal is issued from the shore.
8. Drivers of buildings that perceive the signal "do not approach" must, to the extent possible, notify the nearest competent authorities without delay.
Article 8.11
Safety on board passenger vessels
The following provisions apply to passenger vessels fitted for the stay on board during the night:
a) on board shall be a safety plan specifying the duties of the crew and personnel in the event of an emergency, and instructions for passengers in the event of a waterway, in the event of a fire and in the event of a evacuation of the vessel.
This safety plan and instructions must be displayed in different appropriate locations;
(b) the crew and staff shall be aware of the safety plan referred to in (a) above and shall be periodically instructed of their duties;
(c) during the stay of passengers on board, the evacuation routes shall be completely free of obstacles. The doors and emergency exits on these tracks must be easily opened on both sides;
(d) at the beginning of each journey of more than one day of safety instructions shall be given to passengers;
(e) during the night, as long as there are passengers on board, a safety round must be made every hour. The completion of this round must be checked in an appropriate manner.
Article 8.12
Use of aggars
for passenger vessels
1. Passenger vessels may only take advantage of the vessels authorized by the competent authority on a case-by-case basis or for the operation of the vessel.
2. Unless special authorization is granted by the competent authority, these vessels shall only park at the academies the time necessary for the boarding and landing of the passengers as well as for the loading and unloading of the goods.
Article 9.01
Navigation restrictions
The crossing of the southern bridge curve in Thionville shall be carried out under the following conditions:
When the red lamp is lit, the buildings must stop at the dock on the left bank, downstream of the PK 268,500 (entrance of the curve).
When the green light is lit, the buildings can continue their road and engage under the bridge.
When no fire is switched on, the buildings must emit "long sound" and stop at the dock until the orders of the competent service.
The downstream buildings can only freely enter the curve after authorization given by the Thionville locker.
Article 9.02
Excursions to the Metz lock
1. The passage to the Metz lock outside of a schedule to the knowledge of navigation is subject to a prior request to which it is applied insofar as exceptional operating difficulties do not prohibit it. This application must be submitted no later than 3 p.m. for a passage after the time limit indicated in this schedule and before the time of the start of the next day's resumed schedule. It must be done at the regional advertising center.
2. The application must include:
(a) the name and address of the applicant and the driver of the building,
(b) the name or designation of the vessel and the number and nature of the units of the convoy;
(c) the departure and final destination points of the building,
(d) expected arrival times at each lock.
3. When a scheduled trip does not take place, the lock that received the application must be immediately notified. If the trip is interrupted, the locks that are no longer affected by the passage should be immediately informed.
The application is no longer valid if the arrival time at the Metz lock is exceeded by more than one hour.
Article 9.03
Circulation in the access channel to the Coblence locks
1. The Moselle water fairway has a depth:
• 2.10 m at the equivalent stretch of the Rhine between the confluence (PK 0.00) and the Coblence lock (PK 1.96);
― of 3.70 m at the level of the bief retention regulatory rating between the Coblence lock (PK 1.96) and Rauental (PK 3.55).
2. The buildings are required to move towards the sas that is attributed to them. This indication is given to them from day to night by a direction indicator consisting of two white juxtaposed lamps installed above the central opening of the deck-rail at PK 1,250.
The lights have the following meaning:
(a) fixed left lamp, flashing right lamp: borrow the right (north) opening of the bridge and the right-hand sas, in the direction of the walk,
(b) fixed right lamp, flashing left lamp: borrow the left (south) opening of the bridge and the left sas, in the direction of the walk,
(c) two fixed lamps: stop in front of the direction indicator or stop signal located on the north shore and wait for instructions;
(d) two flashing lights: the two openings of the bridge and the two locks are available.
3. The buildings with a deflection exceeding 2.50 m and the formations with a length exceeding 110.00 m shall use the right (north) opening of the deck and the right (north) sas in the direction of the walk of the upright buildings.
As long as this bridge opening and lock sas are not assigned to them, they must stop at the stop signal located on the north shore.
4. Once the deck is crossed, any crossing of the channel is prohibited to the buildings, except for special instructions from locking personnel.
Article 9.04
Navigation of pushed convoys
at the mouth of Moselle
1. The navigation of pushed convoys with a length of 193.00 m and width 22.90 m is allowed on the Mosel between the confluence and the PK 1.0.
2. The pushed convoys whose width exceeds 11.45 m shall, within a sufficient time before they enter the Moselle, contact radiotelephone with the Coblence lock on track 20, learn about the traffic situation and stay on reception. In addition, they must, within a sufficient time before they enter the Moselle, indicate from minute to minute, by radiotelephony on channel 10, their exact position with respect to the Deutsches Eck. In intervals, they must remain on receipt on track 10.
Article 9.05
Reporting obligation
1. The conductors of buildings and convoys subject to the ADNR, tank vessels, cabin vessels, sea vessels and special transport referred to in 1.21 shall, before entering the Moselle area from the Metz lock (PK 296,88) to the confluence with the Rhine or by taking the departure within that area, indicated by the following authority to communicate:
(a) boat category;
(b) name of the vessel;
(c) position, direction of navigation;
(d) unique European ship identification number or official ship number or IMO number for sea vessels;
(e) heavy cargo;
(f) length and width of the building;
(g) type, length and width of the convoy;
(h) Pressure (on special request);
(i) itinerary;
(j) loading port;
(k) unloading port;
(l) for hazardous substances covered by ADNR:
the UN number or the material number,
- the official designation for the transport completed, if any, by the technical designation,
- the class, classification code and, where applicable, packing group,
- the total quantity of hazardous materials for which these indications are valid,
for other goods:
the nature of the cargo (name of matter, quantity of matter);
(m) 0, 1, 2, 3 blue lights/blue cones;
(n) number of people on board.
2. Without prejudice to the obligation referred to in Figure 1 above, the conductors of all buildings and convoys, except for the ferry and small craft, shall, before entering the Moselle area from PK 233.00 ( Stadtbredimus-Palzem's bar) to the confluence with the Rhine or taking the appropriate departure in the direction referred to above,
(a) loading (empty or loaded);
b) Estimate of arrival time at the entrance lock:
aa) at the Stadtbredimus-Palzem lock for swallows,
bb) at the Coblence lock for amounts.
3. The data indicated in Figure 1 above, with the exception of those referred to in Letters (c), (h) and (n), and in Figure 2 above, may also be communicated, in due course, by other services or persons to the competent authority, either in writing or orally or electronically. The announcement must be made in writing or electronically for transport of more than two different dangerous substances. In any case, the driver must announce when his or her building or convoy enters one of the areas subject to the reporting obligation, when he or she leaves it again, and when, inside the area, he or she passes another announcement point located on his or her road.
4. When a building stops its road for more than two hours, the driver must indicate the start and end of the interruption.
5. When the data referred to in Figure 1 above change on the subject area under the reporting obligation, the next lock must be notified immediately.
6. All buildings that have made a complete announcement in accordance with the number 1 or 2 above, as well as buildings that have already announced on the Rhine in accordance with the requirements of Article 12.01 of the Police Regulations for the Navigation of the Rhine and which enter the Mosel, shall, at the passage of the other notice points located on their road, repeat that the data referred to in number 1, letters (a) to (d) above.
7. The Moselle area subject to the reporting obligation referred to in Figure 1 above, as well as the announcement points that are ― on the way ― in front of the locks within the Moselle area referred to in Figure 2 above, are marked by B.11 (Annex 7) and an additional panel "Advertising Obligation".
8. The competent authority may determine an obligation to announce and its content for daily excursion vessels.
Article 11.01
Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms are:
1. General
(a) "waste/waste": one distinguishes between waste occurring during the operation of the vessel and waste related to the cargo.
(b) "waste occurring during the operation of the vessel": waste and wastewater occurring on board as a result of the operation and maintenance of the vessel.
(c) Cargo-related wastes: waste and waste water on board the vessel as a result of the cargo.
(d) "Agreed Receipt Stations": buildings within the meaning of Article 1.01, letter (a) or land-based facilities authorized by the competent authorities to collect the waste occurring during the operation of the vessel and the waste related to the cargo.
(e) "Exclusive loading": transport in which the same cargo or other cargo is constantly transported, the carriage of which does not require the cleaning of cargo holds or tanks.
2. Boat operation
(a) "Smoked grease": waste grease collected during its flow of greases, bearings and grease installations and other non-reusable fat.
(b) "used oil": used oils or other non-reusable oils for engines, gears and hydraulic installations.
(c) "Other oily or greasy waste": used filters (used oil and air filters), used cloths (cleaned polished cloths and wool), containers (empty containers, welded), packagings.
(d) "Case bottom water": oily water from the bottom of the machine room, peak, cofferdams or lateral compartments.
(e) "Home waste water": waste water from kitchens, dining rooms, shower rooms (showers, sinks) and laundry facilities as well as faecal waters.
(f) "Wood waste": organic and inorganic waste from households (e.g. food remains, paper, glass and similar kitchen wastes) does not, however, contain components of other defined waste related to the vessel's operation.
(g) "Currage stops": residues occurring on board the vessel during the operation of a water purification plant.
(h) "Separate water": separate water from the bottom of the hold thanks to means implemented on board approved desoiling vessels.
(i) "Slops": mixtures of cargo residues with, for example, remains of washing water, rust or mud, suitable or not to be pumped.
(j) "Other special waste": waste occurring during the operation of the vessel, with the exception of wastes referred to in (a) to (g) and (i) above.
3. Cargo
(a) "Continuing Cargo": any liquid cargo remaining after unloading as residues in tanks or pipes without the use of an additional drying system according to the DNAR as well as any dry cargo remaining after unloading as residues in holds without the use of brooms, mechanical sweepers or suction installations. Packagings and fixtures are part of the cargo.
(b) "Residues of cargo": any liquid cargo that cannot be evacuated from tanks or pipes by the additional drying system according to the DNAR and any dry cargo whose hold cannot be disposed of by the use of mechanical sweepers or brooms.
(c) "Management residues": dry cargo or if any liquid that when handling falls on the vessel outside the hold (e.g. on the board).
(d) "Case/ uncleaned tank": a hold or tank where remaining cargo remains.
(e) "Sweet Cale": A hold of any remaining cargo (e.g., mechanical or broom sweepers) and where only cargo residues remain.
(f) "Dried tank": tank removed from any remaining cargo (e.g. using the additional drying system according to the DNAR) and where only cargo residues remain.
(g) "Aspirated caliphate": unloaded hold of the remaining cargo using the suction technique and where much less cargo residues remain than in a swept hold.
(h) "cleaning": removal of the hold and the tank from the remaining cargo using appropriate means (e.g. brooms, mechanical sweepers, suction technique, additional drying system) and which allows to reach the cleanliness state "swept" or "swept" for the hold or "dried" for the cargo tank as well as disposal of the cargo tanks
(i) "wash": disposal of cargo residues of swept or vacuumed holds and dried tanks using water or water vapour.
(j) "Lavated tank/coat": hold or tank that after washing is appropriate to any cargo.
(k) "washing water": water occurring when cleaning swept or vacuumed or dried tanks. It is also part of the ballast water and rain water from these holds or tanks.
Article 11.02
General vigilance
The driver, other crew members and other persons on board are required to demonstrate all the vigilance required by the circumstances, in order to avoid pollution of the waterway and to minimize the amount of waste and waste water on board.
Article 11.03
Prohibition of spill
1. It is forbidden to drop or flow into the waterway from the buildings of the waste oils, lime-floor water, waste fat or other oily or greasy waste, as well as slops, household waste and other special waste.
2. In the event of an accidental discharge of wastes referred to in Figure 1 above or a threat of such dumping, the driver must promptly notify the nearest competent authorities, indicating as precisely as possible the nature and location of the spill.
Article 11.04
Collection and treatment on board
1. The driver shall ensure the separate collection on the wastes referred to in Article 11.03, Figure 1, in the receptacles provided for this purpose and the collection of the water of holds in the holds of the engine rooms. The receptacles shall be stored on board in such a way that any leakage of goods can be easily observed and prevented in time.
2. It is forbidden
(a) use portable tanks stored on the bridge as waste oil collection tanks,
(b) Burning waste on board or
(c) Introduce in the bottom of the machine room cleaning products dissolving oil or grease or emulsifying action. Except for products that do not make the wastewater treatment more difficult by approved reception stations.
Article 11.05
Waste oil control notebook,
deposit at reception stations
1. Any building with a machine room within the meaning of the Visiting Regulations or a particular equivalent requirement of one of the Moselle's riparian states, with the exception of small craft, shall have on board a valid waste oil checkbook issued by the competent authority according to the model in Appendix 10. This checkbook must be kept on board. After its renewal, it must be kept on board at least 6 months after the last registration.
2. The waste referred to in 11.03, Figure 1, except for household waste, shall be deposited, against justification, at reception stations approved by the competent authorities at regular intervals, determined by the state and operation of the building. This justification consists of a reference in the waste oil control notebook by the receiving station.
3. Any building that, pursuant to valid provisions outside the Mosel, is provided with other documents relating to the deposit of wastes related to the operation of the vessel, must be able to demonstrate the deposit of waste outside the Rhine by these other documents. The waste oil control journal provided for in the Convention on the Prevention of Pollution at Sea (Marpol) is also considered as evidence for this purpose.
4. Household garbage must be deposited at reception stations for this purpose.
Article 11.06
Obligation of vigilance during feeding
1. When fuelling or lubricants, the driver is required to ensure that:
(a) the quantity to be calibrated is within the limits of the legible areas of the control facility;
(b) in the individual filling of tanks, the stop valves in the connecting pipes of the tanks shall be closed,
(c) the feeding procedure is monitored and
(d) one of the facilities referred to in Article 8.05, Figure 10, of the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or in a particular equivalent requirement of one of the Moselle River States is used.
2. The driver is also required to ensure that the persons of the fuelling station and the vessel responsible for the fuelling procedure have agreed on the following points prior to the start of the fuelling operations:
(a) the guarantee of the proper functioning of the system referred to in 8.05, Figure 11, of the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations or in a particular equivalent requirement of one of the Moselle River States and a phone link between the vessel and the feeding station,
(b) quantity to be sprayed by tank and filling flow, particularly in relation to possible tank air evacuation problems,
(c) order of filling of tanks,
(d) speed of navigation in case of fuelling during travel.
3. When the fuelling is carried out by a vessel, the operator of the vessel is only allowed to begin the feeding procedure after consultation on the points set to the number 2.
Article 11.07
(not applicable)
Article 11.08
Oil-free boats
Except for the prohibition referred to in Article 11.03, Figure 1, the discharge in the waterway of water separated by approved desoilers if the maximum residual oil content at the outlet is continuously and without prior dilution in accordance with national requirements.
Article 11.09
Painting and external cleaning of ships
It is forbidden to induce oil or clean the outer edge of the boats with products whose discharge in the water is prohibited.
Done in Paris, May 4, 2009.
Nicolas Sarkozy
By the President of the Republic:
The Prime Minister,
François Fillon
Minister for Foreign Affairs
and European,
Bernard Kouchner
