17 Bearing in mind that many maritime Authorities in the Asia-Pacific region are in the early stage of development of the port State control activities, the Port State Control Committee paid particular attention to the education and training of port State control officers, and approved the integrated strategic plan for the training and exchange of port State control officers in the Asia-Pacific region. The plan consists of the following three component programmes:

　

　

18 The Secretariat, in co-operation with the Government of Japan, has developed and implemented basic training programme for port State control officers in the Asia-Pacific region, in which 3-week training in nine separate annual courses are conducted in Yokohama, Japan for the period 1995-1999 in order to provide basic training for some 220 PSC officers in the region. The course was conducted with support by maritime Authorities in the Tokyo MOU as well as the Paris MOU regions and also by the non-governmental organizations, including IACS and OCIMF, which provided expert lecturers. Up to the present, 236 PSCOs from 16 member and observer Authorities have undertaken basic training.

　

19 The Committee at its eleventh meeting noted that the 12th Basic Training Course to be held in 2002 is planned to be jointly sponsored with IMO, on equal cost sharing basis.

　

20 Expert missions have been organized as follows:

　

　

21 The Fellowship training have been organized since 2000 as follows.

　

　

22 PSCC exchange programmes have been organized as follows.

　

　

23 The Tokyo MOU Secretariat, in co-operation with the host Authorities, have organized nine seminars; namely:

　

　

24 The Port State Control Committee, at its first meeting, agreed that the financial contribution of each member Authority is apportioned according to the following formula:

　

25 The Authorities' contribution in the regular budget is capped to US$353,500, with the possibility of adjustment for inflation, the balance being paid by the donation from Japan. The cost for the maintenance of APCIS is calculated separately and added to the annual contributions to the regular budget. The costs for technical co-operation programmes are financed by the voluntary contribution by a Japanese donor.

The income and expenditure of the Tokyo MOU for the financial year 2001 (from 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002) are shown in the following table.

　

　

26 The Port State Control Committee at its 7th meeting agreed that the Tokyo MOU would actively participate in the implementation of Equasis and provide port State inspection data carried out in the Asia-Pacific region. The Agreement between the Tokyo MOU Secretariat and the Equasis Management Unit was concluded in April 2000. Since the official launch of Equasis on 23 May 2000, the Tokyo MOU data has been shown in the Equasis web-site.

　

27 Since its inception, the Tokyo MOU has followed closely the practices of the Paris MOU, and adopt their procedures and practices if considered appropriate in the Asia-Pacific region. Recently, the Tokyo and Paris MOU has maintained close relation, with mutual representation of the Port State Control Committee meetings.

　

28 The most significant event was the organization of the Joint Paris/Tokyo MOU Ministerial Conference on Port State Control in Vancouver, Canada, in 1997. The Ministerial Declaration adopted by the Ministers from the Paris and Tokyo MOU regions included commitment of close co-operation of the two MOUs to achieve the aim of elimination of sub-standard ships.

　

29 The main areas of co-operation and harmonizarion of port State control procedures include the following;

　

30 The list of convention references, showing the relevant regulation numbers of the relevant instruments against each deficiency, was prepared by the IMO Secretariat in 1998 in response to the request made by the Tokyo and Paris MOUs. Due to the recent development of amendments to the regulations including SOLAS 2000 amendment further updates are required.

　

31 The Paris MOU and Tokyo MOU publish in their annual reports statistical data on port State control carried out in their regions. Furthermore, IMO is presently collecting port State control data, and presents global statistical data to the FSI Sub-Committee. To enable meaningful comparison of these data, it is important to ensure that these statistical data are prepared and presented on a consistent basis. The areas in which harmonization is considered important include the following:

32 The results of port State inspections carried out in the Asia-Pacific region, together with the PSC data under the Paris MOU, Acuerdo de Via del Mar and the United State Coast Guard, are summarized in the following paragraphs. In this connection, it should be noted that the methods of counting the number of ships visits, inspections, deficiencies and detentions by the above regional organizations and USCG may not be identical, and, consequently, this fact should be borne in mind in making comparison of the statistical data published by them.