ISPS
2. Maritime Security Policy
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Maritime Security Policy
I.
Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
II.
Relevant government legislation and
regulations
Definitions
Legal impacts of action or non-action by the
SSO
Handling sensitive security-related
information and communinications
III.
IV.
V.
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I. Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
•1985: IMO resolution A.584(14) on Measures to Prevent unlawful acts
which threaten the safety of ships and the security of their passengers and
crews.
•1986: issued MSC/Circ.443 on “Measures to prevent unlawful acts against
passengers and crew on board ships”.
•1988: Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety
of Maritime Navigation (+fixed platforms) SUA Convention
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I. Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
• MSC/Circs. 622 and 623, as revised, on Guidelines for
administrations and industry on combating acts of piracy
and armed robbery against ships;
• MSC/Circ.754 on Passenger ferry security, providing
recommendations on security measures for passenger
ferries on international voyages shorter than 24 hours,
and ports;
• Assembly resolution A.871(20) on Guidelines on the
allocation of responsibilities to seek the successful
resolution of stowaway cases; and
• Assembly resolution A.872(20) on Guidelines for the
prevention and suppression of the smuggling of drugs,
psychotropic substances and precursor chemicals on
ships engaged in international maritime traffic.
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I. Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
IMO co-operation with
• WCO in 2001  signing of Memorandum
of Understanding (mainly containers)
http://www.wcoomd.org
• ILO in 2003  new seafarer’s identity and
Code of practice for the security of all port
areas
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C185
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I. Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
After “September 11”:
Assembly resolution A.924(22) (11/2001)
Review of the existing international legal and
technical measures to prevent and
suppress terrorist acts against ships at sea
and in port, and to improve security
aboard and ashore (budget increase)
2001-2002…2005 Solas ISPS-Code
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I. Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
AMENDMENTS TO SOLAS
Chapter V and Chapter XI
Now
XI-I and XI-2
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I. Relevant international conventions,
codes and recommendations
ISPS CODE AND SOLAS AMENDMENTS 2002:
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CHAPTER V
Accelerated implementation of AIS
CHAPTER XI - 1
Ship’s Identification Number
Continuous Synopsis Record
CHAPTER XI - 2
International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code
Part A - Mandatory
Part B - Recommendatory
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Maritime Security Policy
I.
Relevant international conventions, codes
and recommendations
II. Relevant government legislation
and regulations
III.
IV.
V.
Definitions
Legal impacts of action or non-action by the
SSO
Handling sensitive security-related
information and communinications
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II. Relevant government legislation
and regulations
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II. Relevant government legislation
and regulations
SSP approval Port State Control
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Maritime Security Policy
I.
II.
Relevant international conventions, codes
and recommendations
Relevant government legislation and
regulations
III. Definitions
IV.
V.
Legal impacts of action or non-action by the
SSO
Handling sensitive security-related
information and communinications
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III. Definitions – Solas Chapter XI-2
Regulation 1
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Bulk carrier means a bulk carrier as defined in regulation IX/1.6.
Chemical tanker means a chemical tanker as defined in regulation VII/8.2.
Gas carrier means a gas carrier as defined in regulation VII/11.2.
High-speed craft means a craft as defined in regulation X/1.2.
Mobile offshore drilling unit means a mechanically propelled mobile offshore drilling unit,
as defined in regulation IX/1, not on location.
6. Oil tanker means an oil tanker as defined in regulation II-1/2.12.
7. Company means a Company as defined in regulation IX/1.
8. Ship/port interface means the interactions that occur when a ship is directly and
immediately affected by actions involving the movement of persons, goods or the
provisions of port services to or from the ship.
9. Port facility is a location, as determined by the Contracting Government or by the
Designated Authority, where the ship/port interface takes place. This includes areas such
as anchorages, waiting berths and approaches from seaward, as appropriate.
10. Ship to ship activity means any activity not related to a port facility that involves the
transfer of goods or persons from one ship to another.
11. Designated Authority means the organization(s) or the administration(s) identified, within
the Contracting Government, as responsible for ensuring the implementation of the
provisions of this chapter pertaining to port facility security and ship/port interface, from
the point of view of the port facility.
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II. Relevant government legislation
and regulations
12. International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code means the International Code for
the Security of Ships and of Port Facilities consisting of Part A (the provisions of which
shall be treated as mandatory) and part B (the provisions of which shall be treated as
recommendatory), as adopted, on 12 December 2002, by resolution 2 of the Conference of
Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974
as may be amended by the Organization, provided that:
1. amendments to part A of the Code are adopted, brought into force and take effect in
accordance with article VIII of the present Convention concerning the amendment
procedures applicable to the Annex other than chapter I; and
2. amendments to part B of the Code are adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee in
accordance with its Rules of Procedure.
13. Security incident means any suspicious act or circumstance threatening the security of a
ship, including a mobile offshore drilling unit and a high speed craft, or of a port facility or
of any ship/port interface or any ship to ship activity.
14. Security level means the qualification of the degree of risk that a security incident will be
attempted or will occur.
15. Declaration of security means an agreement reached between a ship and either a port
facility or another ship with which it interfaces specifying the security measures each will
implement.
16. Recognized security organization means an organization with appropriate expertise in
security matters and with appropriate knowledge of ship and port operations authorized to
carry out an assessment, or a verification, or an approval or a certification activity, required
by this chapter or by part A of the ISPS Code.
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II. Definitions – ISPS Code part A
section 2
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Convention means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974
as amended.
Regulation means a regulation of the Convention.
Chapter means a chapter of the Convention.
Ship security plan means a plan developed to ensure the application of measures
on board the ship designed to protect persons on board, cargo, cargo transport
units, ship’s stores or the ship from the risks of a security incident.
Port facility security plan means a plan developed to ensure the application of
measures designed to protect the port facility and ships, persons, cargo, cargo
transport units and ship’s stores within the port facility from the risks of a security
incident.
Ship security officer means the person on board the ship, accountable to the
master, designated by the Company as responsible for the security of the ship,
including implementation and maintenance of the ship security plan and for liaison
with the company security officer and port facility security officers.
Company security officer means the person designated by the Company for
ensuring that a ship security assessment is carried out; that a ship security plan is
developed, submitted for approval, and thereafter implemented and maintained
and for liaison with port facility security officers and the ship security officer.
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II. Definitions – ISPS Code part A
section 2
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Port facility security officer means the person designated as responsible for the
development, implementation, revision and maintenance of the port facility security
plan and for liaison with the ship security officers and company security officers.
Security level 1 means the level for which minimum appropriate protective security
measures shall be maintained at all times.
Security level 2 means the level for which appropriate additional protective security
measures shall be maintained for a period of time as a result of heightened risk of
a security incident.
Security level 3 means the level for which further specific protective security
measures shall be maintained for a limited period of time when a security incident
is probable or imminent, although it may not be possible to identify the specific
target.
The term ship when used in this Code, includes mobile offshore drilling units and
high-speed craft as defined in regulation XI-2/1.
The term Contracting Government In connection with any reference to a port
facility, when used in sections 14 to 18, includes a reference to the .Designated
Authority..
Terms not otherwise defined in this part shall have the same meaning as the
meaning attributed to them in chapters I and XI-2.
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Maritime Security Policy
I.
II.
III.
Relevant international conventions, codes
and recommendations
Relevant government legislation and
regulations
Definitions
IV. Legal impacts of action or nonaction by the SSO
V.
Handling sensitive security-related
information and communinications
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IV. Legal impacts of action or nonaction by the SSO
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Maritime Security Policy
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Relevant international conventions, codes
and recommendations
Relevant government legislation and
regulations
Definitions
Legal impacts of action or non-action by the
SSO
V. Handling sensitive securityrelated information and
communinications
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V. Handling sensitive security-related
information and communications
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Keep talk “in the job”  grainship
Radio’s
ISPS material
“Good house father” practice
Sensitivity changes with the level
1/2/3  SSP
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