Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 909/2013 of 10 September 2013 on the technical specifications for the electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation (Inland ECDIS) referred to in Directive 2005/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

Article 1

The technical specifications for the electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation (Inland ECDIS) are defined in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

ANNEX

ELECTRONIC CHART DISPLAY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR INLAND NAVIGATION

(Inland ECDIS)

SECTION 1

PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR INLAND ECDIS

(a) Electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation (Inland ECDIS) is composed of hardware, software for the operating system and application software.

(b) Inland ECDIS aims to contribute to the safety and efficiency of inland shipping.

(c) Inland ECDIS can be designed for both information mode and navigation mode, or for information mode only. The minimum requirements for Inland ECDIS equipment designed for information mode only, specified in Chapter 4.1 of Section 1 and Section 4 of this Annex, are mandatory on waterways where carriage requirements are enacted by the responsible legislative organs. In other regions they are recommended.

(d) For navigation mode Inland ECDIS (Operating System Software, Application Software and Hardware) as specified in Section 4 of this Annex shall have a high level of reliability and availability; at least of the same level as other means of navigation.

(e) Inland ECDIS shall use chart information as specified by Sections 2 and 3 of this Annex.

(f) National authorities and international bodies are recommended to consider transitional provisions when they are introducing carriage requirements for Inland ECDIS.

(g) Inland ECDIS shall meet all the requirements of the Inland ECDIS performance standard set out in this Annex.

(h) The terms ‘skipper’ and ‘boat master’ used in this Annex shall be deemed to be equivalent with the term ‘ship master’ used in the RIS Guidelines – Commission Regulation (EC) No 414/2007 (¹).

(i) The producer or supplier of Inland ECDIS software must document in the user manual of the software which requirements for equipment (hardware) referred to in point (c) need to be fulfilled for Inland ECDIS in information mode on waterways where carriage requirements are enacted by the responsible legislative organs.

(j) When the Inland ECDIS equipment provides essential services as defined in Directive (EU) 2016/1148 concerning measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems across the Union, the provisions of the said legislation apply.

(k) AIS is an automatic identification system for maritime vessels that complies with the technical and performance standards laid down in Chapter V of the SOLAS Convention (Safety of Life at Sea), as defined in the document referred to in point 2(r) of Section 1. Inland AIS refers to the automatic identification system for inland waterway vessels as set out in the document referred to in point 2(p) of Section 1. In this Annex, whenever AIS is mentioned it refers to both maritime AIS and Inland AIS, unless specified otherwise.

(a) IHO Special Publication No S-57 ‘IHO Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data’, Edition 3.1, Supplement No 2, June 2009 with all Appendices and Annexes.

(b) IHO Special Publication No S-62 ‘ENC Producer Codes’, Edition 2.5, December 2009.

(c) IHO Special Publication No S-52 ‘Specifications for Chart Content and Display Aspects of ECDIS’, 6th Edition, March 2010, with all Appendices and Annexes, including: — S-52 Appendix 1 ‘Guidance on Updating the Electronic Chart’, Edition 4.0, April 2012. — Former S-52 Appendix 2 ‘Colours & Symbols Specifications’, Edition 4.3 (Jan 2008) — Former S-52 Appendix 3 ‘Glossary of ECDIS-RELATED Terms Specifications’ (now S-32, Appendix 1 (Sep 2007)) — Annex A to former S-52, Appendix 2, ‘Presentation Library’, Edition 3.4 (2008)

(d) IMO Resolution MSC.232(82) ‘Revised Performance Standards for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS)’, December 2006.— Appendix 3 NAVIGATIONAL ELEMENTS AND PARAMETERS

(e) IEC-Guideline 61174, edition 3.0 ‘ECDIS — Operational and performance requirements, methods of testing and required test results’, 2008-9.

(f) Annex 5, Sections I to III of the ES-TRIN 2017 standard: Requirements applicable to radar installations and rate-of-turn indicators.

(g) IHO Special Publication No S-32 Appendix 1 ‘Glossary of ECDIS-related Terms’.

(h) Edition 2.4 of Appendix 1 ‘Product Specification for Inland ENCs' of UNECE Resolution 48 ‘Recommendation on electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation (Inland ECDIS)’, including appendix 1.1 ‘IENC Feature Catalogue’ and 1.2 ‘Inland Electronic Navigational Chart Encoding Guide’.

(i) Edition 2.4 of Appendix 2 ‘Status of Presentation Library for Inland ECDIS' of UNECE Resolution 48 ‘Recommendation on electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation (Inland ECDIS)’.

(j) Edition 2.4 of Appendix 3 ‘Product Specification for bathymetric Inland ENCs' of UNECE Resolution 48 ‘Recommendation on electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation (Inland ECDIS)’, including appendix 3.1 ‘bathymetric IENC Feature catalogue, edition 1.0’.

(k) EN 60945 (2002) + corr1 (2010): Marine navigational equipment; General requirements — Methods of testing and required test results.

(l) IEC 61162 is a collection of standards for ‘Digital interfaces for navigational equipment within a ship’. The 61162 standards are developed in Working Group 6 (WG6) of Technical Committee 80 (TC80) of the IEC.

(m) IENC Domain in the S-100 Registry

(n) IEHG Product Specification for Inland ENCs

(o) IEHG Inland ENC Feature Catalogue

(p) Commission Regulation (EC) No 415/2007 concerning the technical specifications for vessel tracking and tracing systems (OJ L 105, 23.4.2007, p. 35).

(q) Annex II of Directive (EU) 2016/1629 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels (OJ L 252, 16.9.2016, p. 118).

(r) Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system (OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 10).

(a) The chart information to be used in Inland ECDIS shall be the latest edition of information.

(b) Provisions shall be made to prevent the user from altering the contents of original Inland ENC and bathymetric Inland ENC editions.

(c) At least the following features shall be included in the ENC: — waterway axis with kilometres indication, — links to the external xml-files with operation times of restricting structures, in particular locks and bridges. — location of ports and transhipment sites, — reference data for water level gauges relevant to navigation, — bank of waterway (at mean water level), — shoreline construction (e.g. groin, longitudinal control dam, training wall – any facility that is considered a hazard to navigation), — contours of locks and dams, — boundaries of the fairway/navigation channel (if defined), — isolated dangers in the fairway/navigation channel under water, — isolated dangers in the fairway/navigation channel above water level, such as bridges, overhead cables etc., — official aids-to-navigation (e.g. buoys, beacons, lights, notice marks), If the chart producer is using overlay files or bathymetric Inland ENCs, the features may be included in different chart cells, but the whole package must fulfil the minimum requirements listed in the indents above.

(d) Where the chart is intended to be used for navigation mode (Chapter 5.2 of this Section), the respective competent authority shall decide for each waterway or harbour which of the features referred to in point (c) are to be verified. After verification, the respective competent authority shall declare which Inland ENCs and bathymetric Inland ENCs are approved for navigation mode within its geographical area of responsibility (for details see Section 2A of this Annex).

(e) The System Electronic Navigational Chart (SENC) shall be stored in the Inland ECDIS.

(a) Inland ECDIS shall be capable of accepting updates to the Inland ENC data provided in conformity with the Product Specification for Inland ENCs and updates of the depth information provided in conformity with the Product Specification for bathymetric Inland ENCs. Those updates shall be applied to the SENC automatically. The implementation procedure of the update shall not interfere with the display in use.

(b) Inland ECDIS shall allow for the display of updates, so that the skipper may review their contents and ascertain that they have been included in the SENC.

(c) Inland ECDIS shall be capable of revoking automatically applied updates of the Inland ENC data.

(d) Original Inland ENC editions and later updates shall never be merged.

(e) The Inland ENC and all updates to it shall be displayed without any degradation of their information content.

(f) The Inland ENC data and updates to it shall be clearly distinguishable from other information.

(g) Inland ECDIS shall ensure that the Inland ENC and all updates to it have been correctly loaded into the SENC.

(h) Inland ECDIS shall keep a record of updates, including the time of application to the SENC.

(i) The contents of the SENC to be used shall be adequate and up-to-date for the intended voyage.

(a) The display method shall ensure that the displayed information is clearly visible to more than one observer in the typical conditions of light experienced in the wheelhouse of a vessel by day and night.

(b) In navigation mode the display size of the chart presentation shall be at least 270 mm by 270 mm for equipment designed and admitted for the navigation mode.

(c) In information mode ergonomic aspects shall determine the size. The information displayed must be readily visible from the conning position. The display diagonal shall be equal to or larger than 199 mm (7,85 inches). Under all conditions the boat master must be capable of perceiving the displayed information sufficiently in accordance with Human Machine Interface guidelines. If the software is sold without a display, the manufacturer's documentation shall include the information that it may only be used as Inland ECDIS in information mode if the display fulfils the requirements of this Chapter 4.1.

(d) The following criteria must be fulfilled in navigation mode as well as in information mode: — Alphanumeric data and text shall be presented using a clearly legible non-italic sans-serif font. — The font size shall be appropriate for the viewing distance from user positions (i.e. with respect to reading distance and viewing angles) likely to be experienced in the wheelhouse of a vessel. — The character height and the size of AIS symbols in millimetres shall not be less than 3,5 times the nominal viewing distance in metres. — The minimum size of AIS symbols and the minimum character height of AIS information shall be 3,5 mm. — The manufacturer's documentation shall identify the nominal viewing distance for the display equipment.

(e) The display requirements shall be complied with, whether in landscape or in portrait format.

(f) In information mode for the size of the display it is recommended to use the size as specified for navigation mode. In the event that space for the installation of the display is a problem, the display size might be reduced taking into account the nominal viewing distance for the display.

(a) In information mode (refer to Chapter 5.1 of this Section) all scales and ranges are permitted.

(b) In navigation mode (refer to Chapter 5.2 of this Section), only the successive switchable ranges (scales) specified in Chapter 4.7 of Section 4 of this Annex are permitted.

(a) In information mode all kinds of chart orientation are permitted (see Chapter 5.1 of this Section)

(b) In navigation mode the chart shall be automatically positioned and oriented in the relative motion, head-up orientation with the own vessel's position in the screen centre or off-centred (see Chapter 5.2 of this Section).

(a) The display of SENC information shall be divided into the following three display categories: — Display Base — Standard Display (Standard Information Density) — All Display. The allocation of the feature classes to the display categories is given in detail in the Look-up Tables of the document referred to in point 2(i) of Section 1 of this Annex.

(b) The Display Base category shall contain at least the following features: — bank of waterway (at mean water level), — shoreline construction (e.g. groin, longitudinal control dam, training wall – any facility that is considered a hazard to navigation), — contours of locks and dams, — boundaries of the fairway/navigation channel (if defined), — isolated dangers in the fairway/navigation channel under water, — isolated dangers in the fairway/navigation channel above water level, such as bridges, overhead wires etc., — official aids-to-navigation (e.g. buoys, lights and beacons).

(c) The Standard Display (Standard Information Density) category shall contain at least the following features: — the objects of Display Base category, — prohibited and restricted areas, — piers for commercial vessels (cargo and passenger), — kilometre and hectometre or mile marks on the banks.

(d) The All Display category shall display all features that are contained in the Inland SENC, individually on demand.

(e) When starting the Inland ECDIS, it shall come up with the Standard Information Density as defined in the document referred to in point 2(c) of Section 1 and the Glossary of Terms in Section 5 of this Annex.

(f) Inland ECDIS shall be switchable to the Standard Information Density at any time by a single operator action.

(g) Inland ECDIS shall clearly indicate the information density in use at all times.

(h) Time variable depth information in the ENC shall be displayed independently of the three display categories referred to in point (a).

(a) In navigation mode the radar image shall have the highest display priority and shall only be permitted to be presented in the relative motion, head-up mode. If the system is also type approved for maritime ECDIS, true motion and north-up mode may be implemented, but only for working in information mode.

(b) The underlaid SENC shall match in position, range and orientation. The radar image and the position from the position sensor shall both be adjustable for the antenna offset to the conning position.

(c) The overlaid radar image shall conform to the minimum requirements as specified in Chapter 4.14 of Section 4 of this Annex.

(d) The overlaid radar image may contain additional navigational information. Any additional navigational information and tracking and tracing symbols shall however in no way degrade the display of the original radar content.

(a) Inland ECDIS and additional navigational information (Inland AIS) shall use a common conventional geodetic coordinate reference system.

(b) It shall be possible to display the skipper's own vessel's position on the screen.

(c) It shall be possible for the skipper to select safety depth limits.

(d) Inland ECDIS shall indicate the falling short of the safety depth limits.

(a) The display of colours and symbols to represent SENC information shall at least be able to comply with the regulations of Section 3 of this Annex. Additionally other user-selectable symbol sets are permitted.

(b) To present navigational elements and parameters as listed in the document referred to in point 2(d) of Section 1 of this Annex other colours and symbols than those mentioned in point 4.7(a) of this Section shall be used.

(a) The accuracy of the calculated data that are presented shall be independent of the display characteristics and shall be consistent with the SENC accuracy.

(b) The Inland ECDIS in navigation mode shall provide an indication as to whether the display uses a smaller display range than the accuracy of the Inland ENC data offers (over-scale indication).

(c) The accuracy of all calculations performed by Inland ECDIS shall be independent of the characteristics of the output device and shall be consistent with the SENC accuracy.

(d) Bearings and distances drawn on the display or those measured between features already drawn on the display shall have accuracy no less than that afforded by the resolution of the display.

(a) Information mode shall be used for information only and not for navigation.

(b) In information mode all kinds of chart orientation, rotation, zooming and panning are allowed. However, it is recommended to use the same fixed ranges as in the navigation mode and the chart orientation whether: — to north, or — to the fairway axis at the actual position, or — to the actual vessels heading.

(c) It shall be possible to scroll the chart manually on the screen with the fairway axis in line with the vertical screen axis.

(d) Inland ECDIS may be connected to a positioning sensor to scroll the chart picture automatically and to display the section of chart matching the actual surrounding, namely in the operator-selected range.