1 Press release 1 August 2025 JOINT CONCENTRATED INSPECTION CAMPAIGN ON BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT The member Authorities of the Tokyo and the Paris Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control will launch a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Ballast Water Management. The purpose of the campaign is to determine if ships meet the mandatory requirements for Ballast Water Management (BWM) as prescribed in the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (BWM Convention). This 2025 campaign has been initiated in order to promote the effective and consistent implementation of the BWM Convention. In order to determine if ships meet the requirements of the Convention, the following areas will be verified during inspections: • Proper certification for BWM Convention; • Approval and update of the Ballast Water Management Plan (BWMP); • Crew familiarisation in the implementation of the BWMP; • Ballast Water Management System approval and its operation; • Records of Ballast Water Record Book (BWRB); • Ballast water sediment management; and • Valid exemptions, if any. The inspection campaign will be held for three months, commencing from 1 September 2025 and ending 30 November 2025. A ship will be subject to only one inspection under this CIC during the period of the campaign. Port State Control Officers will use a pre-defined questionnaire to assess that the BWM requirements in the respective areas are met. If any non-conformities are found, actions by the port State may vary from recording a deficiency and instructing the Master to rectify it within a certain period of time, to detaining the ship until the serious deficiencies have been rectified. Inspection results will be published on the websites of the Tokyo and Paris MoU. 2 The results of the campaign will be analysed and findings will be presented to the governing bodies of both MoUs for possible submission to the International Maritime Organization. *** 3 Paris MOU Tokyo MOU Mr. Luc Smulders Secretary-General Paris MoU on Port State Control PO Box 16191 2500 BD The Hague The Netherlands Tel: +31-70-4561508 E- mail: secretariat@parismou.org Web-site: www.parismou.org Mr. KUBOTA Hideo Secretary, Tokyo MOU Secretariat Ascend Shimbashi 8F 6- 19-19, Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan 105-0004 Tel: +81-3-3433 0621 F ax: +81-3-3433 0624 E- mail: secretariat@tokyo-mou.org Web-site: www.tokyo-mou.org Notes to editors: Paris MOU Tokyo MOU Regional Port State Control was initiated in 1982 when the maritime Authorities of f o urteen European countries agreed to coordinate t heir port State inspection ef f ort under a voluntary agreement known as the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MOU). Currently 27 countries are members of the Paris MOU. The European Commission, although not a signatory to the Paris MOU, is also a member of the Committee. The Paris MoU is supported by a central database THETIS hosted and operated by the European Maritime Saf ety Agency in Lisbon. Inspection results are available f or search and daily updating by MoU Members. Inspection results can be consulted on the Paris MoU public web site. The Secretariat of the MoU is provided by the Netherlands Ministry of Inf rastructure and Water Management and located in The Hague. The Memorandum of Understanding on P o rt State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region, known as the Tokyo MOU, was signed among eighteen maritime Authorities in