Iala Standard: S1010 Marine Aids To Navigation Planning and Service Requirements
Iala Standard: S1010 Marine Aids To Navigation Planning and Service Requirements
Iala Standard: S1010 Marine Aids To Navigation Planning and Service Requirements
S1010
MARINE AIDS TO NAVIGATION PLANNING
AND SERVICE REQUIREMENTS
Edition 1.0
May 2018
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BEARING IN MIND the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS) and the Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS),
RECOGNIZING that the aim of IALA is to foster the safe, economic and efficient movement of
vessels, through improvement and harmonisation of aids to navigation world-wide,
RECALLING Article 7 of the IALA Constitution regarding the authority, duties and functions of
the General Assembly,
RECALLING ALSO that a goal of the work of IALA is that Marine Aids to Navigation are
developed and harmonized through international cooperation and the provision of standards as
described in the Strategic Vision for the period 2018-2026,
HAVING CONSIDERED the advice of the Council provided to General Assembly at its 13th
Session,
APPROVES the IALA Standard 1010 Marine Aids to Navigation Planning and Service
Requirements, and
1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5
2. PURPOSE ....................................................................................................................................... 5
3. APPLICATION ................................................................................................................................. 5
4. SCOPE............................................................................................................................................ 5
5. REFERENCED DOCUMENTS ............................................................................................................. 6
6. SUPPLEMENTARY ELEMENTS .......................................................................................................... 7
7. ADOPTION OF AND AMENDMENT OF STANDARDS ......................................................................... 7
8. DOCUMENT HISTORY ..................................................................................................................... 7
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1. INTRODUCTION
The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) is a specialized
organization for world-wide improvement and harmonization of Marine Aids to Navigation.
The term “Marine Aid to Navigation” referred to in the Constitution of IALA, should be understood to be device,
system or service, external to vessels, designed and operated to enhance safe and efficient navigation of
individual vessels and/or vessel traffic. For the purposes of IALA this definition includes Vessel Traffic Services.
IALA publishes Standards, Recommendations, and Guidelines, defined as follows.
Document Definition
IALA Standard An IALA Standard is a part of a framework, the implementation of which by
all coastal states will harmonise Marine Aids to Navigation worldwide. IALA
standards cover technology and services and are non-mandatory.
IALA Recommendation An IALA Recommendation specifies what practices shall be carried out in
order to comply with that Recommendation, and may be referenced, in full
or in part, in an IALA Standard.
IALA Guideline An IALA Guideline describes how to implement practices normally specified
in a Recommendation.
2. PURPOSE
The IALA Strategic Vision for the period 2018-2026, approved by the General Assembly in 2018, includes the Goal
to ensure that
“Marine Aids to Navigation are developed and harmonised through international cooperation and the
provision of standards.”
IALA Standards are suitable for direct citation by States in the interest of an efficient and harmonised global
network of Marine Aids to Navigation and services.
3. APPLICATION
This Standard is suitable for implementation by all Marine Aids to Navigation authorities.
4. SCOPE
IALA Standards may contain normative and informative provisions.
Normative provisions are those with which it is necessary to conform in order to claim compliance to the
Standard.
Informative provisions are those which specify additional desirable practices but with which it is not necessary to
conform in order to claim compliance to the Standard.
This Standard references normative and informative provisions, detailed in the listed IALA Recommendations,
covering the following scope.
• Obligations and regulatory compliance
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• Marine Aids to Navigation planning
• Virtual marking
• Levels of service
• Risk management
• Quality management
5. REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
In this Standard, any reference to a Recommendation is to the most recent version approved by the IALA Council.
In this Standard the word ‘shall’ is used to indicate that a provision is normative and is to be followed in order to
comply with the Standard. The word ‘should’ introduces informative provisions.
The following Recommendations are normative provisions, and shall be observed if compliance to this Standard is
claimed.
Obligations and
regulatory compliance
Aids to Navigation R1001 IALA Maritime Buoyage System and other Marine Aids to
planning Navigation
Levels of service R0130(O-130) Categorisation and Availability Objectives for Short Range
Marine Aids to Navigation
Risk Management R1002 Risk Management for Marine Aids to Navigation and
Related Services
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The following Recommendations are informative provisions and should be observed if compliance with this
Standard is claimed.
Risk management R1003 Maritime Data Sharing for Risk Assessment and Analysis
6. SUPPLEMENTARY ELEMENTS
There are no supplementary elements to this Standard.
8. DOCUMENT HISTORY
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