The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, hereinafter the Agency, hereby issues
- the provisions on the time of application for survey and the information to be appended to the application,
- further provisions on surveys for seaworthiness, surveys to prevent pollution of the marine environment, load line surveys and surveys of ships covered by selfmonitoring,
- further provisions on documents and certificates to be issued on the basis of such surveys, their period of validity and the extension of their validity, and
- further provisions on the maritime labour certificate and its period of validity, referred to in chapter 6 (Survey of ships) of the Act on the Technical Safety and Safe Operation of Ships (1686/2009), hereinafter the Ship Safety Act.
In addition, this Regulation contains the provisions on the survey of cable ferries referred to in section 6, subsection 2 of the Act on the Transport System and Highways (503/2005). Furthermore, this Regulation contains the provisions on ship recycling referred to in chapter 8a, section 3 of the Act on Environmental Protection in Maritime Transport (1672/2009).