This electronic publication is intended as an accompaniment to the Procedures for port State control, 2019. It provides the full texts of all the instruments featured in the aforementioned publication’s List of instruments relevant to port State control procedures (appendix 19).

This publication provides guidance to port State control officers (PSCOs) on the conduct of inspections of foreign ships, in order to promote consistency in the way inspections are carried out worldwide, and to harmonize the criteria for deciding on deficiencies found on board relating to the ship, its equipment or its crew, as well as the application of procedures.

This publication contains documents issued in connection with the Conference.