CIDI/CECIP/RES. 7 (XI-10)
SUBCOMMITTEE ON PORT LEGISLATION AND INVESTMENTS
THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON PORTS,
CONSIDERING:
That by resolution CIDI/CIP/RES. 99 (VI-10) the Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) approved the creation of the Subcommittee on Port Legislation and Investments, chaired by Uruguay and having as Vice Chair Chile, and also composed of Argentina, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela;
That by resolution CIDI/CIP/RES. 82 (V-07) the 2008-2011 CIP Action Plan was approved, which is executed through the Executive Board (CECIP) and its Subcommittees;
That the countries that make up this Subcommittee have presented the information on the different activities to be carried out during 2010-2011; and
That it is necessary to define the objectives, functions and 2010-2011 Work Plan of this Subcommittee;
RESOLVES:
1. To approve the following objectives, functions, and 2010-2011 Work Plan for this Subcommittee:
OBJECTIVES:
To analyze and disseminate those aspects that encompass the national and international legislative norms that regulate port activities, in such a manner as to take advantage of the experiences and promote the approximation of national laws to international standards. To analyze the generation of port and associated investment scenarios and the contractual methods that will allow investors from the public and private sectors to appreciate its benefits.
FUNCTIONS:
a) To gather a compendium of hemispheric port legislation related to port management, that is to say, legislation that creates the institutions that manage the ports and regulates their relations with the oversight and regulatory agencies and other authorities which have responsibilities in the port sector.
b) To gather a compendium of laws creating maritime-port economic regulatory agencies as well as the decisions and rulings that they have passed.
c) To gather a compendium of labor laws currently applicable to port workers in the Member States.
d) To analyze the outlook of investments in port infrastructures and related facilities and equipment, both in the demand generated by new projects and the sources of financial and investment resources so that the ports can adapt to the technological advances in maritime transport and may benefit from the process of globalization in the production and the distribution of goods.
e) To prepare scenarios of maritime-port investments to improve the connectivity of the small island states of the Caribbean.
f) To disseminate the existing mechanisms for public-private participation in investments and bring them in line with the scenarios.
g) To strengthen the teaching and training of human resources of the port companies that provide infrastructures and facilities, in collaboration with organisms from developed countries.
WORK PLAN:
a) To continue with the compilation of port legislation in hemispheric countries in order to make a comparative analysis of them.
b) To compile contractual documents related to the processes of public-private participation and process them for the purpose of determining the priority given to the investments in said processes.
c) To elaborate a cadastre of cargo reservations among CIP Member States for the purpose of generating instances for dialogue.
d) To monitor the Member States that have ratified the international conventions of the IMO and the ILO.
2. To entrust the Delegation of Uruguay, which chairs this Subcommittee, and the Delegation of Chile as Vice Chair, to remain vigilant for the fulfillment of this resolution.
3. To urge Member States and particularly the members of this Subcommittee to collaborate actively in the development of the activities of the Subcommittee.