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Ordinance on Maritime Medicine Requirements on Merchant Vessels*
(Maritime Medicine Ordinance – MariMedV)

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Stand: Die Übersetzung berücksichtigt die Änderung(en) der Verordnung durch Artikel 3 der Verordnung vom 25. März 2025 (BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 100)
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Chapter 1
General provisions
Section 1Scope
Section 2Definitions
Chapter 2
Fitness for service at sea
Subchapter 1
Requirements to be fulfilled by persons on board
Section 3Fitness for service at sea requirements
Section 4Conduct of the examination of fitness for service at sea
Section 5Certificate of fitness for service at sea
Section 6Limitations of fitness for service at sea
Section 7Denial of fitness for service at sea
Section 8Board of Appeal
Section 9Authorization of physicians
Section 10Extension of authorization
Section 11Documentation obligations
Section 12Access to fitness for service at sea register
Subchapter 2
Requirements to be fulfilled by specific groups of persons
Section 13Fitness for service at sea requirements to be fulfilled by canal helmsmen
Chapter 3
Medical care
Subchapter 1
Implementation of medical care
Section 14Internal inspections
Subchapter 2
Medical refresher courses
Section 15Obligation to attend medical refresher courses
Section 16Accreditation of training courses
Section 17Monitoring of providers
Section 18Contents and conduct of training courses
Subchapter 3
Ships' doctors
Section 19Registration of ships' doctors
Chapter 4
Transitional and final provisions
Section 20Models
Section 21Transitional arrangement for provisionally authorized physicians
Section 22Transitional arrangement for training courses
Annex 1
(re Section 3 and Section 13(1)(1) and subsection 3)
Fitness for service at sea requirements
Annex 2
(re Section 4(1))
Conduct of examinations of fitness for service at sea
Annex 3
(re Section 5(1)(2) and Section 9(4))
Models of authorization stamps
Annex 4
(re Section 16(1)(1) and Section 18(1))
Contents of medical refresher courses
Annex 5
(re Section 16(1)(4))
Requirements to be fulfilled by the course rooms and the medical equipment for the conduct of medical refresher courses