CL 14/2016: REPORT ON THE OVERALL STATUS OF THE IHO WORK PROGRAMME END OF 2015

IHB File N° S1/1001/WP CIRCULAR LETTER 14/2016 15 March 2016 REPORT ON THE OVERALL STATUS OF THE IHO WORK PROGRAMME END OF 2015 References: A. EIHC-5 - Decision No. 3 (PRO. 5 - Improving the total cost estimate of the IHO tasks for the definition of a prioritized Work Programme); B. IHO Circular Letter 17/2015 dated 24 February - Report on the overall status of the IHO Work Programme - end of 2014; C. IHO Circular Letter 66/2015 dated 2 September 2015 - Report on the overall Status of the IHO Work Programme - mid-year 2015. Dear Hydrographer, Background 1. Decision No. 3 of the 5th Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference (EIHC-5) introduced a six-monthly reporting regime to help assess the progress of the IHO Work Programme (see Reference A). The status reports at the end of 2014 and at mid-year 2015 were circulated to Member States in February and September 2015 (see References B and C). This Circular Letter provides a report for the next reporting point - second semester of 2015. 2. On 1 February 2016, the Directing Committee invited the Chairs of Regional Hydrographic Commissions, Committees, Sub-Committees and Working Groups and the Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry (DCDB) to report by 01 March 2016 on the overall status of their respective work programme. A reporting template was provided to achieve this. Outcome at the end of 2015 3. 19 of 41 Chairs provided a report for the period July to December 2015. This represents a response rate of about 46%, significantly lower than the response rates for the two previous reporting periods. The inventory of the responses to the three biannual surveys is provided in Annex A. 4. As directed by EIHC-5, the Directing Committee is providing in Annex B a brief summary of the reports received. The reports themselves are reproduced in Annex C (in English only). Main areas of concern reported 5. Based on the reports received, the Directing Committee notes that the limited expertise available to the relevant working groups may hinder progress in addressing portrayal and data protection issues related to the development of the S-100 framework. Also, further delays in revising Edition 5.0.0 of IHO Publication S-58 - ENC Validation Checks may affect the implementation of mandatory checks to ensure that ENCs do not contain any critical errors. 6. No significant shortcomings have been reported in the execution of the IRCC work programme. Feedback 7. Seven Member States provided comments in response to Reference C: Argentina, Chile, Mauritius, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Their responses are provided in Annex D. 8. Noting the small number of comments and the mix of opinions on the usefulness and frequency of the reports that they reflect, the Directing Committee invites further feedback from Member States on the reporting process at their earliest convenience and not later than 31 May 2016. The comments from the Member States will be collated by the Directing Committee to inform the re-consideration of the reporting process by the next IHO Conference/Assembly in 2017, as provided by the Conference Decision at Reference A. Next Reporting Period 9. In accordance with the Conference Decision at Reference A, the Directing Committee will issue its next request for six-monthly reports in July 2016. On behalf of the Directing Committee Yours sincerely, Robert WARD President Annexes: A. Inventory of the responses to the three bi-annual surveys B. Compilation of the Status Reports from IHO bodies and inter-organizational bodies involving the IHO - End of 2015 C. Status Reports received (in English only) D. Responses from Member States to IHO CL 66/2015 Copy (by e-mail): - Chairs and Vice-Chairs of IHO bodies - Chairs and Vice-Chairs of inter-organizational bodies involving the IHO 2  Annex A to IHO CL 14/2016 INVENTORY OF THE RESPONSES TO THE THREE BI-ANNUAL SURVEYS IHO bodies and Reports at end Reports at Reports at end Comments inter-organizational of 2014 mid-2015 of 2015 bodies HSSC Yes Yes Yes S-100WG Yes Yes Yes ENCWG Yes (DIPWG) Yes Yes DPSWG Yes Yes Yes NIPWG Yes Yes NCWG Yes Yes Yes DQWG Yes Yes No report TWCWG Yes (SCWG) Yes No report HDWG No report Yes Yes ABLOS No report (late No report submission) IRCC Yes Yes No report HCA Yes Yes No report WWNWS-SC Yes Yes Yes CBSC Yes No report No report WEND-WG Yes Yes Yes IENWG Yes Yes Yes MSDIWG Yes No report No report CSBWG Not Applicable Not Applicable No report CSBWG established by IRCC7 (June 2015) IBSC No report No report No report GEBCO-GC Yes Yes No report TSCOM Yes Yes Yes Joint reports SCRUM SCUFN Yes Yes Yes DCDB No report No report No report NHC No report No report No report NSHC Yes Yes Yes MBSHC No report No report No report BSHC No report No report No report USCHC No report No report No report EAHC No report No report No report EAtHC Yes Yes Yes SEPRHC No report No report No report SWPHC No report No report No report MACHC Yes Yes Yes SAIHC Yes Yes Yes NIOHC Yes No report Yes RSAHC No report No report No report SWAtHC No report No report No report ARHC No report No report No report FC Yes Yes No report SRWG Yes Yes Yes A-1  Annex B to IHO CL 14/2016 COMPILATION OF THE STATUS REPORTS FROM IHO BODIES AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL BODIES INVOLVING THE IHO - END OF 2015 Number of responses 1. The Chairs of 19 bodies responded to the IHB request by 1 March 2016. The following 22 bodies did not provide any report: - subsidiary bodies: FC - subordinate organs of HSSC: DQWG, TWCWG - subordinate organ of IRCC: IRCC, HCA, CBSC, CSBWG, MSDIWG, DCDB - - Regional Hydrographic Commissions: ARHC, BSHC, EAHC, MBSHC, NHC, RSAHC, SEPRHC, SWAtHC, SWPHC, USCHC - Inter-organizational bodies: ABLOS, IBSC, GEBCO GC. Status of the work programme of the HSSC 2. The development of S-100 and the evolution of the S-100 Registry have benefited from additional dedicated support kindly provided by the Republic of Korea and the USA. However, the limited expertise available may hinder progress in addressing S-100-related portrayal and data protection issues. 3. The report of the ENC Standards Maintenance Working Group (ENCWG) identifies a new technical issue which may delay the preparation of Edition 5.1.0 of IHO Publication S-58 - ENC Validation Checks. The implementation of mandatory checks ensuring that ENCs do not contain any critical errors is dependent on the completion of the revision of S-58, Edition 5.0.0. 4. It is likely that both the Vice-Chair and the Chair of the Nautical Cartography Working Group (NCWG) will have to be replaced successively following their expected retirement. Nominees for the election of the new Vice-Chair at the next NCWG meeting (April 2016) should stand ready to assume the role of Chair in the near future. 5. The development through the Wikipedia Foundation of a multi-language Wiki Demonstrator seems to be a promising prospect for supporting the on-line Hydrographic Dictionary S-32. Status of the work programmes of the Regional Hydrographic Commissions 6. Only five out of the 15 RHCs provided a report. 7. Lack of awareness and the under-development of hydrographic capabilities are the main issues reported. Status of the work programme of the IRCC 8. No significant issue is reported. B-1  Annex C to IHO CL 14/2016 STATUS REPORTS RECEIVED – END OF 2015 Contents: - HSSC - S-100WG - ENCWG - DPSWG - NIPWG - NCWG - HDWG - NSHC - EAtHC - MACHC - SAIHC - NIOHC - WWNWS-SC - WEND-WG - IENWG - TSCOM & SCRUM - SCUFN - SRWG C-1  HSSC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of Hydrographic Standards and Services Committee (HSSC) Compiled by Dr Mathias Jonas - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Maintenance of current ECDIS standards: Coordination with IEC and IMO Request of industry to extend by one year, until 31 implementation of the new editions of S- August 2017, the transition period for 52, S-52 Presentation Library, S-58, S-63 upgrading existing ECDIS systems to meet the revised and S-64 set of IHO and IEC standards which came into force on 31 August 2015 for new ECDIS systems Creation of edition 2.0 of S-63 for S-10x data Planned for a draft to be Products behind schedule circulated prior to meeting in March 2016. Development of S-100 and S-100 based Due to IT reasons reengineering of the registry NOAA and ROK work on it product specifications structure and the register interface required Delayed completion of the portrayal catalogue builder Pending completion of the reengineering of the registry for S-101 structure and interface but lack of funding as well. Need to explore the use of the S-52 Presentation Library funds of the IHO special project funds. S-102 still needs to establish both a feature and Pending completion of the reengineering of the registry portrayal catalogue for machine readability. It also structure and interface (see above) needs to propose the encoding that will be used for this product to S-100 edition 2.1.0 C-2  S-100WG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of theS-100 Working Group Compiled by Julia Powell - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Develop an S-100 Interoperability Guidebook Currently this project is on track. Have secured funding via a Korea-NOAA agreement to provide the initial scope of work. Publish edition 3.0.0 of S-100 After the S100WG01 meeting in March plan needs Edition 3.0.0 will include a new encoding format to be developed for the review and finalization of and proposed corrections and clarifications as a S-100 ed. 3.0.0 result of the S-100 test bed activities. Prepare a New Edition of S-102 S-102 still needs to establish both a feature and portrayal catalogue for machine readability. It also needs to propose the encoding that will be used for this product to S-100 edition 2.1.0 Update the S-100 Portrayal Catalogue Builder The PCB has not been used to develop S-100 Need to explore the use of the S-52 Presentation (PCB) based portrayal catalogues as the focus has been Library funds of the IHO special project funds. on updating the other pieces of S-100 infrastructure. Because of the lack of extensive testing and some changes to the S-100 Register infrastructure the PCB may need to have some additional upgrades and functionality added. C-3  ENCWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of Electronic Navigational Chart WG (ENC WG) Compiled by: Thomas Mellor - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments S-52 Presentation Library - Clarify issues reported On track S-52 Presentation Library edition 4.0.1 was issued in by OEMs during recent type approval tests. June 2015. A number of comments have been received from OEMs taking ECDIS through type approval with the new standards. These will be addressed at a meeting in Monaco (8-10 Feb 2016) with final approval by the ENCWG in March. S-64 Clarify issues reported by OEMs during On track A number of comments have been received from recent type approval tests OEMs taking ECDIS through type approval with the new standards. These will be addressed at a meeting in Monaco (8-10 Feb 2016) with final approval by the ENCWG in March. S-58 - 5.1.0 revision currently underway Caris have identified issues with ISO terms and The task will not be able to proceed until this issue with definitions used to describe spatial operators in S-58 spatial operator definitions is agreed. 19125-1. ENCWG will have to decide to either This will be considered at ENCWG1 (March 2016) define our own definitions for spatial operators, accept them as defined or lobby ISO to update their definitions. S-65 review to ensure alignment with the WEND Not started Task group to be established at ENCWG1 (March Principles. 2016) S-66 On track Since HSSC7 the review of S-66 has been the responsibility of ENCWG. The current draft document and comment form will be reviewed at ENCWG1 (March 2016) C-4  DPSWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of DPSWG Compiled by: Jonathan Pritchard - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Creation of edition 2.0 of S-63 for S-10x data Behind schedule. Planned for a draft to be A drafting group and DPSWG meeting is products circulated prior to meeting in March 2016. The scheduled for March 2016 in Tokyo alongside S- goal of that meeting is the production of a draft. l00 and S57 WG meetings. This should provide the opportunity to turn the current document into a workable draft. The current document has been circulated to DPSWG members for comment and update. Resource constraints for authoring S-63 are the only issue as most technical elements are now present. Support to data protection scheme administrators On track A reactive function for the DPSWG group. A and end users (including ECDIS OEMs) mixture of simple queries and issues of policy which are progressed with IHB staff. Some discussion over the use of data for non- navigational purposes and licence agreements will be tabled at the DPSWG meeting in Tokyo. Input into other IHO work groups on S-63 2.0 On track Papers clarifying responsibilities and metadata structure. updates to S-l00 will be presented at S-l00WG meeting in Tokyo. This reflects structural agreements made by DPSWG in previous meetings and provides a framework for completion of the draft 2.0. C-5  NIPWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of NIPWG Compiled by: Jens Schröder-Fürstenberg - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Populate the NPUBS domain of the FCD Register [NEED] improvement of the registry handling The registry is under construction and (work item F.7) improvement comments based on the testing phase experience have been provided Develop S-122–Marine Protected Area Product [GAP] portrayal and data quality parts missing Portrayal part is under consideration by the Specification (work item F 8.1) involved WGs, quality model was forwarded to [NEED] harmonization with S-101 data model, the DQWG for further consideration. feature catalogue builder The harmonization discussion between the S- 100WG/S-101 Project Team and NIPWG is ongoing, the feature catalogue builder is not available Draft Data Capture and Encoding Guides for [NEED] harmonization with S-101 data model Both the S-101 and the S-122 data models should Marine Protected Area Product Specification be harmonized to the widest possible extent. The (work item J.2.1.1) next phase is to await the next S-100WG meeting where the DCEG improvements will be discussed Establish and monitor, in liaison with the S- [NEED] specification of the intended operation The issue is under consideration by the S-100WG, 100WG, the project teams required to specify and of/between different product specifications Unique identifier proposals are under develop nautical information layers for use in consideration ECDIS (IHO Task 2.6.2) C-6  Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Develop high level specifications for a combined [GAP] MSP specification MSPs in their current status of development have Marine Service Portfolio (MSP) covering the not been accepted by the IMO. Further provision of hydrographic services to mariners in improvements and clarifications are requested and accordance with the IMO e-navigation strategy should be provided by mid-2016. implementation plan Develop a test and implementation plan for the [GAP] MSP specification MSPs in their current status of development have development of the MSP “hydrographic services” not been accepted by the IMO. Further (Work item H) improvements and clarifications are requested and should be provided by 2016. A MSP named “hydrographic services” doesn’t exist at the time when this report was been compiled. C-7  NCWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of the Nautical Cartography Working Group (NCWG) Compiled by Jeff Wootton - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time (A) Maintain and extend Publication S-4 'Chart Issue with requirement to conform to IHO Raised at HSSC7 (November 2015). Will be Specifications of the IHO & Regulations of the Resolution 2/2007 for S-4 and coordination of further discussed in association with NCWG IHO for INT Charts' (IHO Task 2.3.2) and publication of associated (IHO adopted) national detailed procedures at NCWG2 (April 2016) and Maintenance of S-4 supplementary publications INT1 publications (DE, FR, ES). at the HSSC Chair Group meeting (June 2016). INT 1, 2 & 3 (IHO Task 2.3.2). (B) Consideration of the future of the paper Likely retirement of the WG Chair may stall Top priority work item assigned at HSSC7. chart (NCWG Work Item A.16) discussions. Correspondence Group identified but little correspondence to date due to conflicting priorities of WG Chair. Discussion paper to be presented at NCWG2. It is hoped that the succeeding Chair* of the WG will be able to continue to progress this item. (C) Maintain and extend Publication S-11 Part A, None. Revised draft based on decisions and actions from Guidance for the Preparation and Maintenance of HSSC7 to be presented at NCWG2. INT Chart Schemes (IHO Task 2.3.2). (D) Development of new (and revised) symbology Actions HSSC7/18 and HSSC7/20 relate to To be discussed at NCWG2. Liaison with other (IHO Task 2.3.2). ECDIS portrayal. The NCWG is in the early HSSC Working Groups such is the S-100WG, stages of transitioning from a focus almost ENCWG and NIPWG; and consultation with exclusively on symbology for paper charts to expert contributors such as OEMs, is considered providing subject matter expertise related to essential. presentation and portrayal for all nautical charting products. This expertise in regard to ECDIS may take some time to build, and accessibility to S-100 test beds and test data will be required. C-8 * NOTE: The current Vice-Chair of the WG will be retiring end of March 2016, and it is expected that the Chair of the WG will be retiring in the latter half of the year. A new Vice-Chair will be elected at the NCWG2 meeting (April 2016), with an expectation that the newly elected Vice-Chair will assume the role of Chair of the WG on retirement of the current Chair, in line with HSSC procedures. C-9  HDWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of HDWG Compiled by: Jean Laporte, HDWG Chairman - e-mail address: [email protected]; [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Review all terms currently included in S-32 for Thanks to the secondment of a Peruvian officer, Since August 2015, Captain Luis Hernandez, their relevance in accordance with the S-32 and the Wikipedia initiative explained below, the Peruvian Navy, has been seconded to the IHO to Business Rules and propose which definitions future of the Hydrographic Dictionary, which was work on the Hydrographic Dictionary, in should be removed from S-32 lagging abominably, is suddenly looking much particular to generate an up to date searchable brighter digital Spanish version to be published on the IHO website. He has brought a Word version up to date with all the changes from before 2000, removed the English references and sorted it into Spanish alphabetical order, the unique reference numbers have been maintained. He is now tackling the duplicate words and identifying terms which he considers are not hydrographic terms or not in usage any longer; and which should eventually be removed. Review the approved definitions of Altitude, Task delayed due amongst other circumstances to 1. The new TWCWG chair lady has been Elevation and Height the changes affecting the new TWCWG and approached and hopefully, the definition will be NCWG. It had been agreed with the 2 previous mentioned at the TWCWG April 2016 meeting chairmen that they should propose a common and the issue revived definition, but the issue has not been addressed 2. It is envisaged to enter the S-100 unambiguous definition in the S-32 under a special caption, so as not to alter the traditional definitions, which are still used by non-S-100 lesser mortals. C-10  Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments To investigate options (scope, format / content The tentative draft TO and Business rules upgrade 1. Thanks to Wikipedia, a major change is about to management system, languages, cross-references, are ready and could be finalised during a meeting occur with synoptic presentations in many maintenance regime, …) and associated resource in Monaco at a date still to be agreed (May 2016 languages against the unique approved IHO requirements and timeline to produce [and would be ideal) reference and the reintroduction of much regretted maintain] a reference edition of S-32 index numbers. 2. A report will be prepared to explain the changes that could take place, after a thorough examination of the Wiki Demonstrator which, so far, is most impressive. C-11  NSHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of NSHC Compiled by: Leendert Dorst, Hydrographic Service of the Royal Netherlands Navy - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments shared European contacts and projects None in cooperation with other European RHCs in the IENWG shared progress to reach an up to date bathymetric 1. limited survey capacity; 1. resurvey strategies for dynamic areas and coverage of the North Sea 2. lack of a basin-wide risk assessment emerging survey methods (LIDAR, SDB, CSB) are taken into account 2. value of a basin-wide risk assessment, as well as the feasibility of the associated tasks, need to be re-evaluated at NHSC32 shared experiences relating to Marine Spatial Data none through establishing a BSHC/NSHC MSDI Infrastructures Working Group shared progress on the establishment of vertical lack of an international initiative to establish a 1. includes national Chart Datums, references reference frames consistent set of references for the entire North suitable for the coastal zone, and Ellipsoidally Sea area Referenced Surveying 2. task is coordinated by the NSHC Tidal WG 3. the current situation will be described by the Coastal Mapping project of the European Commission (DG Mare), action item "assess consistency of the existing vertical datums" online publication of the North Sea Bathymetry This results in: (a) a contribution to the further Database at the new web site of NSHC development of EMODNet, (b) assistance in survey prioritization, and (c) data availability to society in line with the PSI Directive. C-12  EAtHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ………EAtHC………… Compiled by … CV A.DIHAJI (DHOC, MOROCCO) - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Continue to engage coastal states of the region // Republic of Congo is a new pending to approval by to apply to IHO membership. IHO member States to IHO membership (CL 67/2015) Cooperation with a regional organizations in the // CL about cooperation between the Maritime region Organization of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) and IHO was submitted for Member States to provide comments by correspondence procedure. Raising the awareness of the importance of Deficiency of awareness of political deciders in For example: hydrography in the Region and promoting the region on the importance of hydrography for - Technical visit to Liberia postponed to 2016; capacity building. the governance of their maritime space by increasing maritime co-activities, which leads to - High level visit to MOWCA postponed to 2016; a lack of funding and government support. -To suggest to consider including special session on hydrographic capacity as an agenda item for discussion at 38th Annual Council Port Management Association of West and Central Africa (PMAWCA) in 2016, (A letter from Chair of EAtHC was sent to PMAWCA to attend to 37th Annual Council in 2015, without answer) . Monitoring and improving the status of nautical -The need to enhance the data available in the information, surveys, and charting, developing region, for the benefit of national planning or for and implementing INT chart and ENC schemes. other applications, such as marine disasters prevention. -Lack of feedback regarding NAVAREA II C-13  Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Points of Contacts, and no points of contact at all for some coastal States. -Ports non-covered by large scale ENCs. Interest to develop regional hydrographic A few coastal States have national hydrographic We note that some actions taken by Côte d’Ivoire to courses, based on existing African maritime organizations. They mainly consist in develop its capabilities in hydrography and nautical academy. hydrographic cells under the main port authority. charting by creation of a Coordination Center of marine Hydrography and Cartography. Regional Training Course in Hydrographic Field Operator for Francophone Africa C-14  MACHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of MACHC Compiled by: Leendert Dorst, Hydrographic Service of the Royal Netherlands Navy - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments increase membership and regional cooperation developments on the use of Spanish needed 1. Membership is growing. The MACHC welcomed the Dominican Republic as an associate member in December. 2. Strong participation of industry during the MACHC Conferences. shared progress to reach an up to date bathymetric 1. limited survey capacity; 1. emerging survey methods (LIDAR, SDB, CSB) coverage of the MACHC area 2. lack of a basin-wide risk assessment are taken into account 2. developments on risk assessment methodologies are followed closely achieve full ENC coverage None 1. coordinated by the MACHC Integrated Charting Committee. 2. of the 799 current and planned ENCs required to meet WEND principles for adequate ENC coverage, 685 are currently published and available (86%). The number is growing steadily. ensure all coastal states reach CB Phase 1 status. None 1. coordinated by the MACHC CB Committee. 2. The requirement to deliver capacity building activities in Spanish is being met. 3. Annual Hydrographic Awareness Seminars are organized in conjunction with MACHC meetings to raise awareness in the region. contribute to a regional marine SDI through the None 1. coordinated by the MACHC MEIP WG. Marine Environmental Infrastructure Programme 2. The MACHC ENC Online database will be (MEIP) of MACHC. available without password protection. C-15  SAIHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ……SAIHC……………… Compiled by …Captain Abri Kampfer - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Promote technical co-operation in the domain of Majority of Associate Member States in region Shortcomings have been identified during hydrographic surveying, marine cartography, and have still not achieved Phase 1 hydrographic technical visits within the region and are being nautical information within the Region development. addressed through the SAIHC Capacity Building Strategy. National reports presented at the SAIHC Conference allow the opportunity for Associate Member States to provide feedback on progress and request specific support. Next ICCWG and SAIHC Conference scheduled to be held in Cape Town from 29 to 31August 2016. Stimulate all countries within the Region to widen Lack of funding and government support. High Visits by IHB President identified as a SAIHC hydrographic activity in the area and to encourage level interaction required to inform decision Capacity Building priority. CBSC 13 approved a them to seek technical advice and assistance from makers at the political levels of Government to SAIHC requirement for a High level visit to the IHB in establishing and strengthening their create awareness and garner support for in-country Tanzania by IHB President and SAIHC Chair for hydrographic capabilities in order to promote safe officials. 2016. CB Coordinator in process to establish most navigation and create an environment within suitable date. which economic development may take place Facilitate the exchange of information concerning The lack of functioning hydrographic offices and SAIHC Conference and SAIHC ICCWG are used surveys, research or scientific and technical National Hydrographic Committees create some to communicate the requirements and obtain developments, to aid in the planning and difficulty to obtain information. information from delegates. Between scheduled organisation of hydrographic activities conferences there is only communication with INT Chart producers and no feedback from Associate Member countries C-16  Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Conduct Capacity Building projects as approved One training event, the Phase 1 Skills Course, The Technical Aspects of Maritime Boundaries by CBSC transferred from 2015 to 2016 due to difficulty to and Baselines Workshop was successfully find a suitable host country conducted in Fish Hoek, South Africa and a report has been submitted. Difficulty experienced with the hosting of the Phase 1 Skills Course, but there is confidence to still execute the course in June 2016 in Namibia. Two events planned for 2016 execution is the High Level Visit to Tanzania and MBES setting to work project for Mozambique. C-17  NIOHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of……………..NIOHC Compiled by: Commodore Mahmudul Hassan e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments NICCWG None Ongoing Production and maintenance of INT chart and Will be updated at the next NICCWG meeting in ENC schemes for the NIOHC region. March 16 NIOHC CB None Ongoing CB plan revised annually at the NIOHC meeting Will be updated at the next NIOHC meeting in as per MS requirements. March 16 CB events planned and undertaken. Other IHO bodies None Ongoing Responding to actions and reports as required by other IHO bodies eg. IRCC, WEND-WG C-18  WWNWS-SC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of: WWNWS-SC Compiled by: Peter Doherty – Chairman WWNWS-SC - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Maritime Safety Information Training Course Travel expense for 2 Instructors, anticipated via 2 courses per year, 2 instructors per course CB funding. Maritime Safety Information Document Review None expected. WG supports review and standardization of IMO, Work Group WMO, IHO common MSI documents. Chairman supports through IMO NCSR. Conclusion of IHO/WMO MoU expected to increase WMO participation. S-124 Working Group None at this time. WG has the right mix of WG contributes to the modernization of GMDSS National MSI authorities and Industry Partners. via e-navigation. Longer term engagement of MS in S-124 development considered fragile and could retard S delivery. Harmonization with IALA e- navigation initiative considered vital. Review of the Iridium proposal as a GMDSS None expected. Review of Iridium proposal and various Satellite Service Provider documentation via WWNWS-SC meetings interaction with IMO and WMO. Longer term challenges for NAVAREA coordinators’ service delivery via two satellite providers to be considered and explored with IMO. C-19  WEND-WG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of WEND-WG Compiled by: Mark Halliwell (for Capt Jamie McMichael-Phillips) - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Overlapping ENC Issues None Four main items, all of which are complete (including establishment of document repository on IHO website), or are in progress. RENC Harmonization and Distribution None Joint RENC report on benefits of joining a RENC published on IHO website. ENC Coverage None UKHO continues to provide up-to-date statistics on ENC coverage and a list of ports and moorings. IHO Performance Indicators, IHO ENC Catalogue None Updated Programme of Work published on IHO website. Other items are in progress. The Full Implementation of the WEND Principles None A report of the correspondence group has been completed and is available on the IHO website. It will be discussed at WENDWG6 in March. Admiralty Information Overlays None Status Report by UKHO and Proposals paper by other MSs have been published. Will be discussed at WENDWG6 in March. C-20  IENWG REPORT 26 January 2016 (last IENWG meeting held in St-Mandé 18-19 January 2016) Overall status of the work programme of IHO-EC network WG Compiled by Laurent Kerléguer - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and Any amplifying comments needs that may prevent completion of tasks on time To monitor the outcome of the EC call for The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime tender “Coastal mapping” Affairs and Fisheries (DG Mare) has awarded a contract on coastal mapping call MARE/2014/10 to the 18 partners’ consortium led by SHOM. Duration of the contract is 36 months. Kick-off meeting June 2015 in Saint-Mandé. Overall aims of the project are: - Assess the current availability of digital coastal maps in the EU - Disseminate this information by EMODnet - Share experience of coastal mapping in the EU - Develop standards for best practices - Propose how a future JECMaP could operate The coastal mapping portal was opened on December 2015. To prepare the position of European HOs about After consulting European HOs of the RHC concerned, IENWG HOs the future phase of EMODNet, the long term have defined a common strategy relative to the future EMODNET 3 call marine data initiative from the European for tender. Commission Still waiting for EMODNET Bathymetry call to be issued by DG MARE. To improve cooperation with the European IENWG considering how it could be represented in the Maritime Commission, by promoting amongst its entities Spatial Planning Expert Group. and with decision makers the role of the hydrographic offices in development of EU maritime policies. C-21  Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and Any amplifying comments needs that may prevent completion of tasks on time To monitor European directives, calls for IENWG considering how EU Directive on Marine Equipment could tenders and proposals, projects, events, etc., foster the requirement that software-based equipment such as ECDIS be potentially impacting HOs and to define actions updated to the latest version of the relevant standards. to be conducted in accordance HOs of EU/EEA have liaised with their relevant administration to make sure that the question of ECDIS maintenance is at the agenda of the next Maritime Equipment Expert Group (http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupD etail.groupDetail&groupID=2653). This question has not yet been raised at the MED expert group. C-22  SCRUM/TSCOM REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ……SCRUM/TSCOM Compiled by …Martin Jakobsson, Karen Marks… - e-mail address:… [email protected], [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments prevent completion of tasks on time Request Scripps Oceanographic Institution to In progress release SRTM15 to GEBCO for incorporation into the GEBCO Grid. (GGC32-07) Jakobsson, Tani Appoint new Science Day convener GGC32-23 Completed Tim Kearns and Jaya Roperez accepted Joint Appointment Appoint a Vice-Chair for the TSCOM GGC32-10 In progress Marks Release article for GEBCO_2014 Completed Published in AGU’s Earth and Space Science, Aug. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/2015EA000107 Post formal recognition and thanks to Science Day Completed Formal recognition of Paul Elmore posted on Convener on GEBCO website GGC32-25 Marks, GEBCO website under News and Events Weatherall Joint TSCOM/SCRUM Meeting Oct. 2015 Completed Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 2015 Joint TSCOM/SCRUM Meeting Oct. 2016 Organize meeting and preparation Valparaiso, Chile Oct. 2016 GEBCO Science Day 2015 Completed Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 2015 Planning of Arctic and Antarctic mapping meeting Ongoing Meeting/workshop potential participants are in Monaco, June 12-13 invited. This is a coordinated IBCAO/IBCSO activity C-23  SCUFN REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ……GEBCO/SCUFN Compiled by …Hans Werner Schenke - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Conducting the annual SCUFN-Meeting None 12 – 16 Oct 2015 Niteroi, SCUFN-28 Report is available Membership monitoring. Development of S-100 Product Specification for Coordination between stakeholders and Should be put on the agenda SCUFN-29. Canada UFN subject matter experts. Need to establish a volunteered to lead the action. realistic roadmap prior to any UFN database modelling. Maintenance and improvement of the GEBCO Under work by IHB and NOAA/NCEI. Definition of the geometric primitives for all undersea Gazetteer feature, monitoring of pending names, quality control of Maintenance of the Gazetteer interface in the database, interface with other geospatial portals. the future to be discussed at SCUFN-29 as NOAA/NCEI not sure to be able to continue its support. Promotion on SCUFN-activities in international Publication is under prep. Publication of new developments and web-applications in periodicals undersea feature nomenclature Development of an experimental fast-track Role and responsibilities of national none procedure to review “already-chartered and geographical boards in their waters under named” undersea features national jurisdiction. C-24  SRWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of SRWG Compiled by: Andrew Millard - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments In accordance with ToR of the SRWG: Review proposed revised draft regulation Revised draft regulations received from the President on 22 November 2015. Review implementation plan SRWG met by telephone conference and provide our comments back to the President on 4 January Review proposed job descriptions for directors 2016. under new structure We are waiting to hear back on these comments. The President informed me on 30 January 2016 that travel commitments was causing a delay in his response but hopefully we will be able to move to an agreed regulation document and job descriptions by the end of April 2016 in accordance with the revised timetable agreed between the President and SRWG C-25  Annex D to IHO CL 14/2016 MEMBER STATES’ RESPONSES TO IHO CL 66/2015 ARGENTINA In this regard, we agree with the need to realize periodic analysis with the identification of priority areas, but due to the working dynamic work of this Hydrographic Office, we believe that it is not convenient to require status reports on a biannual basis. Those WG and CHR wishing to provide information that they consider important could do so at their discretion, notwithstanding the current annual cycle. CHILE We appreciate very much the decision of the IHB DC to circulate the comments we offered as an answer to CL 7/2015, comments that we strongly continue to support, particularly after considering again the low level of response and the content of the Reports. Other information provided in the Reports, do not necessarily identify gaps and problems or needs or do not offer any information requiring action from MSs. Therefore the value doesn’t seem to be contributing to improve the management of the IHO. MAURITIUS Mauritius is agreeable to the report on the overall status of the IHO work programme mid- year 2015. NIGERIA The Office (NNHO) is of the opinion that quarterly reporting process should be adopted which is to be followed up with monthly reminder through mail so that Member States will make it a top priority. SPAIN The IHM supports the usefulness of biannual reports on Hydrographic Commissions, Committees, Sub- Committees and Working Groups, as we consider that close monitoring on their activities is required for them to be successful. SWEDEN In general we agree with the conclusion made by Chile and their analysis on the low rate of responses in regard to the increased workload. However, we would like to look at this from a slightly different point of view. The RHCs often have their own work plans and meetings once per year or every second year. At the RHC meetings MS as well as the RHC working groups report the progress within the RHC. Many of the activities in the RHCs, which Sweden is a part of, are reported at the RHC meetings. Considering the few inputs received from RHCs to the IHO Directing Committee, we find that many answers describe long term issues and often in general terms. This could be a sign that a biannually reporting regime might be to overdo it - in the case of RHCs. However, we believe that the bodies within IHO, that addresses common challenges and follow common decided work plans with clear milestones of strategic interest for every MS, could benefit of the biannually reporting regime (IRCC and HSSC with their Sub organs, GEBCO, ABLOS, etc.). Sweden therefore proposes: - that RHCs report annually - that IHO bodies and sub organs report biannually D-1  Annex D to IHO CL 14/2016 UNITED KINGDOM The UK supports the suggestion by Canada for IHO deadlines to be included in the IHO Calendar of Events posted on the IHO web site. We are concerned that only 4 of the 15 Regional Hydrographic Commissions responded to the Report. Highlighting IHO deadlines in the IHO Calendar of Events will help to improve the engagement by Regional Hydrographic Commissions but further suggestions for improvements to RHC engagement from Member States and the IHB would also be of benefit. D-2