Notice2025-03044
TITLE: Notice of a Public Meeting in Preparation for International Maritime Organization (IMO) Facilitation Committee (FAL 49) Meeting
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Published
February 25, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10676-10677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03044]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 12675]
TITLE: Notice of a Public Meeting in Preparation for
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Facilitation Committee (FAL
49) Meeting
The Department of State will conduct an in-person and virtual
public meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, March 7, 2025. The primary
purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the forty-ninth session of the
IMO'S Facilitation Committee (FAL 49) to be held in person at IMO
Headquarters in London, United Kingdom from Monday, March 10, 2025, to
Friday, March 14, 2025.
Members of the public may participate in-person or via Microsoft
Teams. To RSVP, participants should
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contact the meeting coordinator, Mr. James Bull, by email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c882a9a5adbbe69ce68abda4a488bdbbabafe6a5a1a4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="591338343c2a770d771b2c3535192c2a3a3e77343035">[email protected]</span></a> or via phone at (202) 731-1459. The meeting
location will be the offices of ABSG Consulting at 80 M Street SE,
Washington, DC 20003. Instructions for logging in to the meeting will
be provided to those who RSVP.
The agenda items to be considered at this meeting include:
--Adoption of the agenda; report on credentials
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of amendments to the Convention
--Amendments to the FAL Convention to introduce mandatory reporting of
the API and BRI/PNR for maritime transport
--Amendments to the FAL Convention to review the provisions of a key
worker during a public health emergency of international concern
--Application of single window concept
--Review and revision of the IMO Compendium on Facilitation and
Electronic Business, including additional e-business solutions
--Development of a comprehensive strategy on maritime digitalization
--Development of joint FAL-LEG-MEPC-MSC guidelines on electronic
certificates
--Revisions of the Guidelines on maritime cyber risk management (MSC-
FAL.1/Circ.3/Rev.2) and identification of next steps to enhance
maritime cybersecurity
--Measures to address Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) in the
instruments under the purview of the Facilitation Committee
--Development of amendments to the revised guidelines for the
prevention and suppression of the smuggling of drugs, psychotropic
substances and precursor chemicals on ships engaged in international
maritime traffic resolutions FAL.9(34) and MSC.228(82))
--Revision of the Guidelines on minimum training and education for
mooring personnel (FAL.6/Circ.11/Rev.1)
--Unsafe mixed migration by sea
--Consideration and analysis of reports and information on persons
rescued at sea and stowaways
--Technical cooperation activities related to facilitation of maritime
traffic
--Relations with other organizations
--Application of the Committee's procedures on organization and method
of work
--Work program
--Election of Chair and Vice-Chair for 2026
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its forty-ninth
session
Those who plan to participate may contact the meeting coordinator,
Mr. James Bull, by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#eca68d81899fc2b8c2ae998080ac999f8f8bc2818580"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0e446f636b7d205a204c7b62624e7b7d6d6920636762">[email protected]</span></a>, via phone at (202)
731-1459 or in writing at 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Stop
7501, Washington, DC 20593-7501. Members of the public needing
reasonable accommodation should advise James Bull not later than
February 21, 2025. Requests made after that date will be considered,
but might not be possible to fulfill.
Additional information regarding this and other IMO public meetings
may be found at: <a href="https://www.dco.uscg.mil/IMO">https://www.dco.uscg.mil/IMO</a>.
(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2656 and 5 U.S.C. 552)
Leslie W. Hunt,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs,
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2025-03044 Filed 2-24-25; 8:45 am]
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