3 Implementation of this new strategic vision might require modifications to working methods
and navigational tools, such as charts, bridge display equipment, electronic aids to navigation,
communications and shore infrastructure. At this stage, it is difficult to be precise about the full
extent of the changes that might be necessary to fully deliver this vision. However, there might
need to be changes to a number of regulatory instruments, including the appropriate chapters in
the SOLAS Convention. This would therefore entail consideration of the various strands of this
policy in the Sub-Committees on Safety of Navigation (NAV) and Radiocommunications and
Search and Rescue (COMSAR). This proposal is not in any way intended to conflict with the
clear principle, as confirmed in the SOLAS Convention, of the master‘s authority for the
operational safety of the vessel, and in UNCLOS, of freedom of navigation rights.