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The Committee approved new version of the regional port State control Manual, the main guidelines for port State control officers inspecting the vessels. The Manual was made compatible as much as possible with similar documents of the Paris and Tokyo MOUs - leading PSC organizations in the world. Among other things the guidelines of assessment of responsibility of recognized organizations for the deficiencies leading to a detention are introduced in the Manual. The Manual with appropriate amendments to the text of the Memorandum will enter into force from January 1, 2006. 2009 version of MOU states 3rd amendment took effect on 1 Jan 2006. Website shows additional amendments at 2004 annual meeting. 2003 Annual report states: "In accordance with the decision of the Committee Leader (Romania) of the WG on PSC Manual; incorporated adopted amendments into the BS MOU PSC Manual, inserted Paris MOU PSC Manual’s “Guidelines for PSCO on STCW 95 Convention, ISM Code, inspection on working and living condition”, to the BS MOU PSC Manual, replaced the Codes, by the Codes from the Russian Federation submission, adopted by the Committee and provided revised final version of the BS MOU PSC Manual to the Secretariat for publication and distribution to the maritime Authorities for implementation on a trial basis."
