Paris MoU announced new targeting lists

06 June 2011

At its 44th meeting last month, the Paris MoU Committee approved the 2010 inspection results and adopted new
performance lists for flag States and Recognized Organizations. These lists will take effect from 1 July 2011.

The “Black, Grey and White (BGW) List” presents the full spectrum, from quality flags to flags with a poor performance that are considered high or very high risk. It is based on the total number of inspections and detentions over a 3-year rolling period for flags with at least 30 inspections in the period.

On the “Black, Grey and White list” for 2010 a total number of 84 flags are listed: 18 on the “Black list”, 24 on the “Grey list”, and 42 on the “White list”.

In 2009 the number of flags listed totalled 82 flags, namely 24 on the “Black List”, 19 on the “Grey List” and 39 on the “White List”.
Most flags that were categorised as very high risk in previous years remain so in 2010.

The poorest performing flags are DPR Korea, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Togo, Sierra Leone and Montenegro. New on the “Black List” are the flags of Tanzania United Republic and Azerbaijan (both medium risk).

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