This document has been revoked by Resolution A.1119(30)
The Assembly,
RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization regarding 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 FURTHER that, at its twenty-first session, when
adopting resolution A.882(21), it
requested the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment
Protection Committee to keep the Procedures, as amended, under review,
on the basis of experience gained from their implementation,
RECOGNIZING that efforts by port States have greatly contributed
to enhanced maritime safety and security, and prevention of marine
pollution,
RECOGNIZING ALSO the need to update the Procedures, as amended,
to take account of the amendments to IMO instruments which have entered
into force or have become effective since the adoption of resolutions A.787(19) and A.882(21),
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Maritime
Safety Committee, at its eighty-ninth session, and the Marine Environment
Protection Committee, at its sixty-second session,
1. ADOPTS the Procedures for Port State Control,
2011, as set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. INVITES Governments, when exercising port State
control, to implement the aforementioned Procedures;
3. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee and
the Marine Environment Protection Committee to keep the Procedures
under review and to amend them as necessary;