Fishing Vessels (Certification of Deck officers and Engineer officers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 313/2023) Country/Territory Ireland Document type Regulation Date 2023 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Fisheries Keyword Certification Fishing vessel Marine fisheries Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract These Regulations provide for the discipline of certificate of competencies issue by the Minister for deck officers and engineer officers; the Minister may conduct, or arrange for the conduct of, examinations of persons who are applying, or might apply, for a certificate and such arrangements may include (a) the standards of competence to be attained and the conditions to be satisfied by a person before he or she may be issued with a certificate under these Regulations, including any exceptions applicable with respect to any such standards or conditions, (b) the manner in which the attainment of any such standards or the satisfaction of any such conditions is to be evidenced, and (c) the conditions of admission to any such examination. They also provide for the recognition of certain other certificates of competency, and the issuing of certificates of equivalent competency, as well as allowing for certificates issued under previous Regulations to continue in force. The Regulations revoke and replace the Fishing Vessels (Certification of Deck Officers and Engineer Officers) Regulations, 1988 ( S.I. No. 289 of 1988 ) and their amending regulations. They also revoke the Merchant Shipping (Recognition of British Certificates of Competency) Order, 1995 ( S.I. No. 228 of 1995 ). Full text English Website www.irishstatutebook.ie