# Council Directive 96/50/EC of 23 July 1996 on the harmonization of the conditions for obtaining national boatmasters' certificates for the carriage of goods and passengers by inland waterway in the Community, Division 1: Navigation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(a) Exact knowledge of the traffic regulations of inland and maritime waterways, particularly of ECIW (European code for inland waterways) and of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, including nautical signing (designation and buoying of waterways);
(b) Knowledge of the general geographical, hydrological, meteorological and morphological characteristics of the main inland and maritime waterways;
(c) Terrestrial navigation with:
Determination of the course, position lines and ship's position, nautical printed matters and publications, work in the sea chart, nautical marks and buoyage systems, checking of the compass and bases of tidology.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1996/50/annex/II/part/1/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-50/annex-II/part-1/division-1
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