MEPC 43/21
ANNEX 10
DRAFT ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION
AMENDMENTS TO THE PROCEDURES FOR PORT STATE CONTROL
(RESOLUTION A.787(19))
THE ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.787(19) by which it adopted Procedures for port State control,
RECALLING FURTHER that, at its nineteenth session, when adopting resolution A.787(19), it requested the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment Protection Committee to continue their work on this subject with a view to improving further the said procedures, as may be necessary,
NOTING resolution A.741(18) by which it adopted the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention (International Safety Management (ISM) Code),
NOTING ALSO that the ISM Code has been made mandatory for certain ships, under the provisions of chapter ? of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, since 1 July 1998,
RECOGNIZING the need to develop guidelines for port State control related to the ISM Code and to incorporate them in the procedures,
RECOGNIZING ALSO the need to amend the reporting formats contained in the procedures on the basis of experience gained,
RECOGNIZING FURTHER the need to keep the procedures as a whole updated in the light of experience gained in their implementation,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety committee at its seventy-first session and by the Marine Environment Protection Committee at its forty-third session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Procedures for port State control (resolution A.787(19)), the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. INVITES Governments, when exercising port State control, to implement resolution A.787(19) and the amendments annexed to this resolution;
3. INVITES ALSO Governments, when exercising port State control related to the ISM Code, to note that port State control related to the ISM Code should be an inspection and not an audit and that their port State control officers should have the requisite training in, and appropriate knowledge of, the provisions of the ISM Code;
