Amendments To Port State Control Regime

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In order to transpose EU Directive 2013/38/EC into national law, the government has amended the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Law 2011 and issued a revised Merchant Shipping Notification.
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In order to transpose EU Directive 2013/38/EC into national law, the government has amended the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Law 20111 and issued a revised Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Notification.2

The amendments incorporate the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 into the list of conventions whose implementation is checked by port state control and advise the competent authority:

  • to accept the maritime labour certificate and the declaration of maritime labour compliances as proof of compliance with the requirements of the Maritime Labour Convention; and
  • to adopt the onshore seafarer complaint-handling procedures prescribed in the convention.

The amendments also incorporate the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships 2001 and the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001, and stipulate that ships flying the flag of a state that is not party to the convention must not be treated more favourably than ships flying the flag of a state that is.

For information and guidance a consolidated English-language version of the amended Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Law and a translation of the revised Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Notification are available on the website of the Department of Merchant Shipping; the original Greek texts are the definitive versions.

Footnotes

1 Law 95(I), amended by the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment) Law, Law 155(I) of 2015, PI 308/2011.

2 The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Notification of 2015, PI 411/2015.

Previously published by International Law Office

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