Good afternoon, Florian,
I hope this email finds you well
After discussing this matter with the Deputy Head of this department, I’ve received clarification that the GMDSS certificates you provide with these applications cannot be endorsed, as they are not issued by the Romanian Naval Authority. However, we can endorse the Romanian national endorsement as it includes the STCW regulation level for GMDSS certification and it is issued by this authority.
This clarification will not affect those GMDSS FSE previously issued, but going forward we will only be endorsing the Romanian national endorsement for GMDSS applications.
If port state controllers query any of our documents, they should be advised to contact us directly. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the Romanian national endorsement is compliant with STCW and so port state controllers should not have grounds for a fine.
Furthermore, we can endorse either the Romanian CoC or the Romanian national endorsement. If you would like me to amend the FSE to have those CoC certificate numbers on them instead of the Romanian endorsement certificate numbers, please let me know.
I hope this clarifies everything for you and please let me know if you have any more questions.
Wishing you a lovely evening ahead.
Kind regards
Victoria