CERTPRONAV intended a beneficial mission for community, having as main objective the development of technical documentations for the ships and mobile offshore drilling units construction, reparing and modernization according to the most competitive methods and technologies rebuffed by the development-research activity as well as their technical condition evaluation in accordance with the same principles, with a view to the efficient and safe using of these constructions, the safety of life on water, transported goods integrity assurance and environment pollution risk reduction in conformity with the requirements of national and international regulations.
       For this purpose it carries out:
       a) technical analyses and tests for ships and mobile offshore drilling units on structural integrity, intact and damage stability as well as for board equipment and installations;
       b) speciality technical documentations for construction and using of the ships and mobile offshore drilling units as well as for board equipment and installations;
       c) consultancy and expertise, technical verifications and calculations for the naval domain;
       d) specialized technical software to make calculations and analyses aided by computers;
       e) technical data bases for users informing;
       f) own technical norms, methodologies and procedures on their basis the activities a-d) carry on;
       g) executive bodies to operate as:
          - inspection body of type A for ships and naval equipment;
          - naval equipment and small crafts certification body;
          - management systems certification body;
       h) development-research activities to sustain and assure the activities a-f) at a high level of technical competence.
       CERTPRONAV also carries out other activities related to the integration into EU, it participates in national and international programmes of development-research, standardization, technical norms development and conferences, symposia and internal and international congresses of naval domain, etc.