A Study on the Effective Implementation of the Ship Recycling Convention

This paper is a study concerning how the Ship Recycling Convention will be effectively implemented in order to achieve the ultimate goal of the Convention. As a way to identify the necessary measures that should be taken to ensure the effective implementation of the Ship Recycling Convention, obligations of a flag State under the Ship Recycling Convention are briefly examined and the consequent implications for the flag State are identified through the application of the framework of the audit standard in the Code for the Implementation of Mandatory IMO Instruments. Furthermore, obligations of a recycling State are also briefly examined and the consequent implications for the recycling State are identified in the same way as for the flag State. Then, as the last necessary measure to ensure effective implementation, the relationship between a flag State, a recycling State and a port State is examined. In the concluding section, the factors affecting the effectiveness of the Ship Recycling Convention are identified and consequently the ways to ensure the effectiveness of the Convention itself are proposed.