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Regulatory environment for maritime education and training in the European Union

The education and training of seafarers plays a major role in maritime safety and in the protection of the maritime environment. Because of the fact that the standards for the awarding vocational and academic competence vary from State to State and for the reasons that mutual recognition of professional education does not always ensure a standardised level of training for all seafarers, the paper analyzes the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended, which provides the minimum standards of training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers serving on board as well as Directive 2008/106/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2008 on the minimum level of training of seafarers (recast). Evaluation is made of the role of European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in observing the efficiency of implementation of regulations in the field of maritime safety, including the audit of training and certification systems in the third countries that supply seafarers to ships flying the European Union flag. Authors are assessing the position of the Republic of Croatia in its commitment to adapt international and regional legal instruments and call upon to a proactive approach in the field of maritime education and training in providing seafarers with both theoretical background and practical knowledge for the work in the shipping industry. Namely, the better the learning that seafarers receive, the safer shipping will become

maritime education and training ; seafarers ; certification ; minimum level of training

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