| Ｑ４．Please tell us your thoughts on how we could achieve the best way to be able to establish an NGO with IMO-Consultative status, with respect to 'Road Map' to our goal, which will be discussed at the next Forum. |
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| (General) |
| ① |
We salute the JSTRA for spearheading the forum with the end in mind of elevating it to an NGO-observer status in IMO in the years to come. |
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| (Organization) |
| ① |
Delegate of Asian countries should try to persuade secretariat. Try to make forum more important, sometimes to invite important persons of IMO. |
| ② |
Case study of other NGO for registration of IMO/NGO including consultation with other NGO e.g. CESA. |
| ③ |
The consensus among shipbuilders is required before the establishment of an NGO, and the relationships among ASEF, CESS and Tripartite meeting must be clarified. |
| ④ |
It would be one of the solution to have a common Goal jointly within ASEF stakeholders through clarifying the relation between ASEF and the other organizations (ESA, CESS, Tripartite Meeting) and also clarifying the time-table to acquire the IMO Observer Status. |
| ⑤ |
Set-up a kind of permanent organization is necessary. Organizer should be acting organization consistently for assigned period not only for executing Forum. |
| ⑥ |
The subject is how ASEF could build up a persistent system and who would be a main constituent to be able to acquire the NG0 status at IMO. |
| ⑦ |
It would be important to make up a new recognized organization in Asian community |
| ⑧ |
We have to consider funding for management of the NGO including personnel and center office of the NGO. |
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| (Membership) |
| ① |
From the Forum Name and the view point of targeting to acquire the Observer Status in IMO, full membership should be limited to the Shipbuilding Organization only (if there is no organization, the shipbuilding and repair companies would be appropriate) and other individuals・other organizations・other Agencies should be specified clearly as 'Engineering Observer' ( free for submission of the comments, but no right for voting), in a view point to exclude the control from outside such as European-American route／Ship-owners route／Class route, for aiming to avoid causing troubles later. |
| ② |
a. Participation of all governments b. Organization with its objectives c. Sections consisting of (1) Maritime department and Shipyards (2) Industries and manufacturing companies (3) Weather bureaus (4) Port and Harbour department (5) Universities and Institutes (6) Department of Labor and Human Resources (7) Research and Department, Standards and information, IMO section, d. Information of Working committee and its Head - Sources of budgets, Office, secretariat. |
| ③ |
To seek any corporation from individual Government of representatives. |
| ④ |
NGO should have representation from all members. |
| ⑤ |
At first, to arrange for a presentation by ASEF at IMO forum in order to convince the IMO community as to how important is the role of ASEF in examining/reviewing the feasibility /practicality of implementation of the regulations promulgated by IMO for New Construction of ships. Also the status of CESA can be cited as an example in this context. Understandably, CESA has representation in IMO and it is obvious that ASEF is actually much more important compared to CESA in view of the large difference in the volume of New construction in Asia and in Europe. So, apparently, there is no reason as to why IMO will not grant a NGO status to ASEF with IMO-Consultative (Class). |
| ⑥ |
Get more participation from the major shipbuilders from Japan, Korea and China to make our voice loud. |
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| (Awareness) |
| ① |
taking each country government's admittance for establishing the NGO. |
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We hope JSTRA to write IMO on-behalf of the ASEF Forum members informing them of the proceedings and resolutions that were agreed in the First ASEF meeting in Japan. In said letter is an unsolicited offer to IMO for ASEF to serve as a third party observer/consultant (for free of charge) on issues affecting the industry. In said letter is a statement that the observer/consultancy service offer of ASEF maybe considered considering that ASEF members constitutes more than 70% of the shipbuilding projects worldwide. This is the initial step. Perhaps, much, much later on, when IMO finds the importance and value of this service, an NGO consultative status will easily be forthcoming with the accompanying endorsement by each country's Maritime Industry authority. |
| ③ |
Discussion on whether ASEF can have a common Standard for measuring the level of contribution to the IMO jointly would be inevitable from now. |
| ④ |
As the first stage of ASEF, it is necessary for Japan-China-Korea as the big shipbuilding countries in the Far East to create a well organized atmosphere, for that purpose, it should be a starting point through positive exchange of opinions between Japan and Korea, then it would be a key point how to enable Chinese involvement to the ASEF as a Government (country) level. |
| ⑤ |
To hold the ASEF regularly and Public Awareness to the Press such as 'Lloyds List' is necessary. |
| ⑥ |
As its' first stage whether the time/atmosphere for ASEF will be increase or not is important, it would be expected to proceed together with the secretariats in each countries through continuing the Forum. |
