Inland Waterway Transport Ordinance. Country/Territory Germany Document type Regulation Date 1981 (2016) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleOrdinance ensuring inland waterway transport. Subject Water Keyword Inland waters Transport/storage Registration Offences/penalties Sustainable use Geographical area Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe Abstract Article 1 establishes that certain inland waterway vessels as described in this article have to be registered. The text consists of 11 articles divided into 3 Parts as follows: Reporting obligation (1); Steering Lenkungspflicht (2); Final provisions (3). Full text German Website www.bmj.de