The implementation of projects to promote safety of navigation and environmental protection is a concrete demonstration of cooperation and burden sharing between littoral States and user States, the shipping industry and other stakeholders. This would also demonstrate truly effective cooperation between the littoral States and users of the Straits.
The implementation of specific projects would allow user States, the shipping industry and other stakeholders to voluntarily contribute either by financing a project or individual component of a project, or by providing in-kind resources such as technical assistance and equipment to specific aspects of a project. Thus the kinds of cooperation in the implementation of projects that are sought are not necessarily always in monetary terms. For example, industry experts may provide their expertise towards the implementation of more technical related projects.
The arrangement for the implementation of projects within the littoral States are flexible. Furthermore, a particularly project may not be implemented in all of the littoral States. Therefore, in order to accommodate such flexibility, it was agreed that projects could be implemented, through a bilateral or multi-lateral arrangement, through the cooperation and agreement of one or more user States/stakeholders with one or more littoral States.
The Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC), comprising the littoral States and sponsors of projects, will oversee the coordination of the implementation of these projects. The PCC will enable the sponsors of projects to have a role in the overall project planning and implementation. In addition to the PCC, the littoral States directly involved and the sponsors of a specific project have the option of forming a joint project implementation team, or an agreed mechanism, for the technical management and implementation of the project. The PCC and the project implementation teams will ensure that projects are not only implemented smoothly but that sponsors are also involved in the management and implementation of the projects.
The six projects were first proposed at the Kuala Lumpur Meeting 2006 and further reintroduced at the Singapore Meeting 2007. A list of the six projects are as follows :-
Presently, five of the six projects presented at the Kuala Lumpur Meeting remain available for sponsorship, either full or in part, through cooperation with user States or other stakeholders The remaining projects, Project 6 on "Replacement of aids to navigation destroyed or damaged by the tsunami incident" has been sponsored in full by China, and implementation is already in progress.
Presently, five of the six projects presented at the Kuala Lumpur Meeting remain available for sponsorship, either full or in part, through cooperation with user States or other stakeholders The remaining projects, Project 6 on "Replacement of aids to navigation destroyed or damaged by the tsunami incident" has been sponsored in full by China, and implementation is already in progress.
To ensure the successful of the proposed projects, each littoral State has agreed to supervise projects as follows:-
The details of the Project Coordination Committee are explained in the Rules of Procedures.
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