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ISPS Code
The International Ship and Fort Facility Security Code (ISFS
Code) represents the culmination of just over a year's intense work by IMO's Maritime Safety Committee and its Maritime Security' Workin
Group
since the twenty-second session of the Assembly adopted
resolution
A.924(22), on the review of measures and procedures to prevent
acts of
terrorism which threaten the security of passengers and crews
and the safety
of ships, in November 2001. The ISPS Code was adopted by one of the resolutions that were adopted on 12 December 2002
by the Conference of Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974
(London,9 to 13 December 2002 .
The objectives of this Code are:
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to establish an international framework involving co-operation between Contracting Governments,
Government agencies, local administrations and the shipping and port industries;
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to
detect/assess security threats and take preventive measures
against security
incidents affecting ships or port facilities used in
international trade;
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to
establish the respective roles and responsibilities of all these
parties
concerned, at the national and international level, for ensuring
maritime
security;
· to ensure the early and efficient collation and exchange of
security-related information;
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to provide a methodology for security' assessments so as
to have in place plans and procedures to react to changing
security levels;
·
to ensure confidence that adequate and proportionate maritime
security measures are in
place.
This Code applies to:
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the following types of ships engaged on international voyages:
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passenger ships, including high-speed passenger craft;
§ cargo
ships, including high-speed craft, of 500 gross tonnage and
upwards;
§
mobile offshore drilling units;
Ø
port facilities serving such ships engaged on international
voyages
The objectives are to be achieved by the designation of
appropriate officers/personnel on each ship, in each port
facility and in
each shipping company to prepare and to put into effect the
security plans
that will be approved for each ship and port facility. Parts A
and B of the
Code are, respectively, the mandatory requirements regarding the
provisions of chapter XI-2 of SOLAS, 1974, as amended, and
guidance
regarding the provisions of chapter Xl-2 of SOLAS, 1974, as
amended, and part A of the
Code.
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