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  1.1 This document is intended to provide basic guidance for conducting port State control inspections in compliance with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009, (hereafter referred to as "the Convention") and to afford consistency in conducting these inspections, recognizing deficiencies and applying control procedures.

  1.2 The regulations of the Convention contain the following compliance provisions:

  • .1 an International Certificate on Inventory of Hazardous Materials is required for all ships, except ships of less than 500 gross tonnage, ships operating throughout their life only in waters subject to the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly, and existing ships for which both an initial survey and a final survey are conducted at the same time, in which case the International Ready for Recycling Certificate is issued after the survey;

  • .2 Administrations may establish appropriate alternative measures to demonstrate compliance by ships of less than 500 gross tonnage and/or ships operating throughout their life only in waters subject to the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly; and

  • .3 an International Ready for Recycling Certificate is required for all ships of 500 gross tonnage or above being taken out of service and before the recycling of the ship has started.

  1.3 Article 8 of the Convention provides for control procedures to be followed by a State party with regard to foreign ships visiting its ports. The Procedures for Port State Control, 2011, adopted through Assembly resolution A.1052(27), apply in addition to these guidelines.

Parent topic: Annex – 2012 Guidelines for the Inspection of Ships under the Hong Kong Convention
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