IALA RECOMMENDATION

(NORMATIVE)

R1001
THE IALA MARITIME BUOYAGE SYSTEM

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Revisions to this document are to be noted in the table prior to the issue of a revised document.

Date Details Approval

June 2017 1st issue Council session 64

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September 2020
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THE COUNCIL
RECALLING:

1 Article 8 of the IALA Constitution regarding the authority, duties and functions of the
Council.
2 The ‘Agreement on the IALA Maritime Buoyage System’, signed in Paris on the 15th of April
1982 by accredited representatives of 53 nations or aids to navigation services to implement
the IALA Maritime Buoyage System so initiating the harmonisation of maritime buoyage
worldwide and that accredited representatives of other nations or aids to navigation services
subsequently acceded to this agreement.
3 that the IALA Maritime Buoyage System described in the Agreement has been superseded by
the IALA Maritime Buoyage System Second Edition published March 2010 with additional
aids to navigation marks.
4 that the International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea Chapter V Regulation 13 requires
Contracting Governments to take into account the Recommendations and Guidelines of
IALA, including the Maritime Buoyage System (IMO SN.1/Circ.297).
RECOGNISING:

1 That the current IALA Maritime Buoyage System has been adopted by almost all marine aids
to navigation authorities worldwide.
2 That the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has issued its Resolution No. 22
on 12 November 1982 relating to signs and signals on inland waterways adopting the
maritime buoyage rules of IALA into its ‘SIGNI Signs and Signals for Inland Waterways’.
CONSIDERING the proposals of the Aids to Navigation Requirements and Management Committee,

ADOPTS the Maritime Buoyage System, as set out in the Annex,

RECOMMENDS that National Members and other authorities providing marine aids to navigation
services implement the IALA Maritime Buoyage System,

REQUESTS the Aids to Navigation Requirements and Management Committee or such other
committee as the Council may direct to keep the Recommendation under review and to propose
amendments as necessary. Such amendments shall require General Assembly approval.

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