1 The Marine Environment Protection Committee,
at its fifty-sixth session (9 to 13 July 2007), and the Maritime Safety
Committee, at its eighty-third session (3 to 12 October 2007), approved
the text of the Code of good practice for port State control officers.
2 Member Governments and regional port State control
regimes are invited to apply the Code of good practice for port State
control officers as appropriate and to bring it to the attention of
officials exercising port and coastal State actions and other parties,
as appropriate.