3.5 Enforcement
The proposed Act stipulates that supervision of the requirements applying to ships shall be carried out only when the ships are in Norwegian ports. Administrative measures and violation fines may be directed at the employer or the ship owner.(1) Or, more accurately, the ISM company. See the International Safety Management Code (ISM) para. 1.1.2. This means that enforcement jurisdiction over ships may only be exercised in port, where they are subject to Norwegian territorial sovereignty.
Supervision of the requirements applying to licensees shall be carried out by licensees themselves, by documenting to the supervisory authority that they are complying with the relevant requirements. Non-compliance will be met by administrative measures or violation fines directed at the licensee. Under no circumstance will the supervision or the enforcement of the requirements applying to licensees involve exercising enforcement jurisdiction over foreign-flagged ships.