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2 DECISIONS OF A 22 AND MSC/ES.1
2.1
The ISWG noted document MSC 75/17 (Secretariat) on the outcome of the A22 and MSC/ES.l, recalling the Secretary-General's opening remarks on the adoption of resolution A.924(22) and subsequent decisions by A22, its Technical Committee and the extraordinary session of the MSC, and in particular the decisions on how the future work is expected to be conducted (see also paragraph 1.7).
2.2
The ISWG considered the relevant part of the above document and the outcome of FAL 29 (MSC 75/ISWG/3) and STW 33 (MSC 75/ISWG/3/1) under the relevant agenda items, as appropriate.
2.3
The ISWG also took note of document MSC 75/17/Add.l (Secretariat) giving a brief summary and background information on the instruments to be reviewed in accordance with operative paragraph 1 of resolution A.924(22), MSC 75/ISWG/INF.3 (Secretariat) on information on the work undertaken by other United Nations Organizations and Agencies, as received by the Secretariat to date and MSC 75/ISWG/INF.7 (Secretariat) on the recent Tokyo Ministerial Conference on Transport, held on 15 and 16 January 2002 by invitation of the Government of Japan, containing at annex the Transport Ministers' Statement on Counter- Terrorism.
3 REVIEW REQUESTED IN OPERATIVE PARAGRAPH 1 OF RESOLUTION A.924(22)
3.1
The ISWG recalled that operative paragraph 1 of resolution A.924(22) "requests the Maritime Safety Committee, the Legal Committee and the Facilitation Committee, under the direction of the Council, to undertake, on a high priority basis, a review to ascertain whether there is a need to update the instruments referred to in the preambular paragraphs and any other relevant IMO instrument under their scope and/or to adopt other security measures and, in the light of such a review, to take prompt action as appropriate".
3.2
Recalling further that all documents submitted to this session had either been introduced under item2 (see paragraphs 2.1 to 2.3) or considered under item 5, the ISWG recognized that the review requested by operative paragraph 1 of resolution A.924(22) was addressed under item 5 with regard to:
.1 the relevant provisions of SOLAS;
.2 the relevant provisions of STCW;
.3 MSC/Circ.443; and
.4 MSC/Circ.754.
3.3
The ISWG recognized further that the review of the provisions of the Annex to the SUA Convention was a matter for the Legal Committee and agreed to include it as such in the list under item 4 and the work plan under item 6.
3.4
In addressing the review of other related IMO instruments, the ISWG recalled that the SPI Working Group (MSC 75/ISWG/3):
.1 proposed (paragraph 17.5) that other instruments such as MSC/Circ.622/Rev.l on Recommendations to Governments for preventing and suppressing piracy and armed robbery against ships; MSC/Circ.623/Rev.2 on Guidance to shipowners and ship operators, shipmasters and crews on preventing and suppressing acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships and resolution A 872(19) on Guidelines for the prevention and suppression of the smuggling of drugs, psychotropic substances and precursor chemicals on ships engaged in international maritime traffic;
.2 also considered (paragraph 32) that the Recommendations on the safe transport of dangerous cargoes and related activities in port areas and the IMO/ILO UN ECE Guidelines for packing of CTUs should be reviewed in light of any security measures to be included;
.3 also considered (paragraphs 28 and 29) that the development of a ship security code and a port security code and a suitable joint IMO/ILO instrument should be discussed.
3.5
Having considered the above in some detail the ISWG agreed to:
.1 invite MSC 75 to instruct DSC 7 to review the Recommendations on the safe transport of dangerous cargoes and related activities in port areas and the IMO/ILO UN ECE Guidelines for packing of CTUs in light of any security measures to be included;
.2 invite MSC 75 to consider the need to prepare amendments to the 3 instruments mentioned in paragraph 3.4. 1 above;
.3 invite MSC 75 to consider the need for the development of the outline of a port security instrument in co-operation with ILO; and
.4 include these issues in the list of subjects for further elaboration.
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