Annual General Assembly 2006 - Dalian

Project Session 1

Approval Of Romanian MET System By EMSA

Eugen Barsan

ABSTRACT

In 2003, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) started an ambitious campaign for evaluation and assessment of the maritime education and training system in non EU countries that are supplying officers for the European Union (EU) merchant fleet. In other words, EMSA has started his own investigation in order to build an EU White list.
Theoretically, in accordance with the EMSA policy, the evaluation and assessment process of the national MET system should only be focused on the STCW 95 provisions and requireÂments. Practically it implied more than that, not in terms of curricula but regarding the qualÂity management of the MET process. The STCW Convention or the IMO MSC Committee had no provisions regarding the implementation of a quality management system (QMS) for the MET system. In Romania, universities will have to implement a special QMS model by the end of 2006.
After the EMSA inspection, we congratulated ourselves that The Constantza Maritime UniÂversity (CMU) had voluntarily adopted the ISO 9000 QMS under BV certification 3 years ago. We think that in the absence of an already functioning QMS, it would had been very difficult to meet the EMSA standards

Keywords: maritime; education; assessment; EMSA; QMS

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