This document has been revoked by Resolution A.1138(31)
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 ALSO resolution A.1052(27), by which it adopted the Procedures for port State
control, 2011,
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 to take account of the amendments
to IMO instruments which have entered into force or have become effective since the
adoption of resolution A.1052(27),
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Marine Environment Protection
Committee, at its seventieth session, and the Maritime Safety Committee, at its
ninety-seventh and ninety-eighth sessions,
1 ADOPTS the Procedures for port State control, 2017, 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;
4 REVOKES resolution A.1052(27).