Selction of ships for inspection

Every day a number of ships will be selected for a port State control inspection throughout the region. To facilitate such selection, the central computer database, known as ‘SIRENAC’ is consulted by PSCOs for data on ships particulars and for the reports of previous inspections carried out within the Paris MOU region. If a ship has been inspected within the Paris MOU region during the previous six months and, on that occasion, was found to comply, the ship will in principle be exempted from further inspection, unless there are clear grounds to warrant further investigation.
 
In selecting ships for inspection the Paris MOU Authorities will give priority to

• Ships visiting a port of a State, the Authority of which is a signatory to the Memorandum, for the first time or after an absence of 12 months or more. In the absence of appropriate data for this purpose, the Authorities will rely upon the available data in the information system and inspect those ships which have not been registered in that information system following its entry into force on 1 January 1993;
• Ships flying the flag of a State appearing in the three-year rolling average table of above-average detentions and delays published in the annual report of the Memorandum;
• Ships which have been permitted to leave the port of a State, the Authority of which is a signatory to the Memorandum, on the condition that the deficiencies noted must be rectified within a specified period, upon expiry of such period;
• Ships which have been reported by pilots or port authorities as having deficiencies which may prejudice their safe navigation;
• Ships whose statutory certificates on the ship’s construction and equipment, issued in accordance with the relevant instruments and the classification certificates, have been issued by an organization which is not recognized by the Authority;
• Ships carrying dangerous or polluting goods, which have failed to report all relevant information concerning the ship’s particulars, the ship’s movements and concerning the dangerous or polluting goods being carried to the competent authority of the port and coastal State;
• Ships which are in a category for which expanded inspection has been decided.
• Ships which have been suspended from their class for safety reasons in the course of the preceding six months.