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SOLAS/CONF.5/34 ANNEX 1 CONFERENCE RESOLUTION 2 (adopted on 12 December 2002) ADOPTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CODE FOR THE SECURITY OF SHIPS AND OF PORT FACILITIES THE CONFERENCE, HAVING ADOPTED amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”), concerning special measures to enhance maritime safety andsecurity, CONSIDERING that the new chapter XI-2 of the Convention makes a reference to an International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code and requires that ships, companies and port facilities to comply with the relevant requirements of part A of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code, as specified in part A of the ISPS Code, BEING OF THE OPINION that the implementationby Contracting Governments of the said chapter will greatly contribute to the enhancement of maritime safety and security and safeguarding those on board and ashore, HAVING CONSIDERED a draft of the International Code for the Security of Ships and of Port Facilities prepared by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization (hereinafter referred to as “the Organization”),at its seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth session, for consideration and adoption by the Conference, 1. ADOPTS the International Code for the Security of Ships and of Port Facilities (hereinafter referred to as “the Code”), the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution; 2. INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention to note that the Code will take effect on 1 July 2004upon entry into force of the new chapter XI-2 of the Convention; 3. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the Code under review and amend it, as appropriate; 4. REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the Organization to transmit certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the Code contained in the Annex to all Contracting Governments to the Convention; 5. FURTHER REQUESTS theSecretary-General to transmit copies of this resolution and its Annex to all Members of the Organization, which are not Contracting Governments to the Convention.

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SOLAS/CONF.5/34 ANNEX 1 Page 2 ANNEX INTERNATIONAL CODE FOR THE SECURITY OF SHIPS AND OF PORT FACILITIES PREAMBLE 1 The Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Security held in London in December 2002 adopted newprovisions in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 and this Code* to enhance maritime security. These new requirements form the international framework through which ships and port facilities can co-operate to detect and deter acts which threaten security in the maritime transport sector. 2 Following the tragic events of 11th September 2001, the twenty-second session of theAssembly of the International Maritime Organization (the Organization), in November 2001, unanimously agreed to the development of new measures relating to the security of ships and of port facilities for adoption by a Conference of Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (known as the Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Security) in December2002. Preparation for the Diplomatic Conference was entrusted to the Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) on the basis of submissions made by Member States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Organization. 3 The MSC, at its first extraordinary session, held also in November 2001, in order to accelerate the development and theadoption of the appropriate security measures established an MSC Intersessional Working Group on Maritime Security. The first meeting of the MSC Intersessional Working Group on Maritime Security was held in February 2002 and the outcome of its discussions was reported to, and considered by, the seventy-fifth session of the MSC in March 2002, when an ad hoc Working Group was established to further...