(iii) assist the Commission in the performance of any task assigned to it by existing and future Community legislation on maritime safety, ship pollution prevention and ship pollution response, notably legislation applicable to classification societies, the safety of passenger ships, as well as that applicable to the safety, training, certification and watchkeeping of ships' crews, including the verification of compliance of third countries with the requirements of the 1978 International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping, and of the measures taken to ...[+++]prevent fraud involving certificates of competency.

(iii) assist the Commission in the performance of any task assigned to it by existing and future Community legislation on maritime safety, ship pollution prevention and ship pollution response, notably legislation applicable to classification societies, the safety of passenger ships, as well as that applicable to the safety, training, certification and watchkeeping of ships' crews, including the verification of compliance of third countries with the requirements of the 1978 International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping, and of the measures taken to ...[+++]prevent fraud involving certificates of competency.

(iii) assist the Commission in the performance of any task assigned to the Commission by existing and future Community legislation on maritime safety and ship pollution prevention, notably legislation applicable to classification societies, the safety of passenger ships, as well as that applicable to the safety, training, certification and watchkeeping of ships' crews.

(iii) assist the Commission in the performance of any task assigned to the Commission by existing and future Community legislation on maritime safety and ship pollution prevention, notably legislation applicable to classification societies, the safety of passenger ships, as well as that applicable to the safety, training, certification and watchkeeping of ships' crews;

Where the authorities require information about the crew of a ship on its departure, a copy of the crew list, presented on arrival, shall be accepted on departure if signed again and endorsed to indicate any change in the number or composition of the crew or to indicate that no such change has occurred.

The proposed rule making for the elimination of crew list visas : The rule making proposed by the US State Department provides for the elimination of crew list visas for crew members on foreign ships making port calls in the US.