Why isn the IMO directly responsible for the ISPS code and its implementation?
The ISPS Code and other security amendments were adopted under the SOLAS Convention. The Convention itself does not allow for IMO as a body to impose penalties. It provides for individual Contracting Governments to adopt the rules into their own national legislation. So there is no remit under the Convention for IMO as a body to monitor compliance or to go beyond the role set out for it under the Convention.
