31 With regard to the completion, on request of
the ship, of a Declaration of Security (DoS) when interfacing with
a port facility or a ship not covered by a security plan, the Committee
confirmed its working assumption that, for port facilities not covered
by the regulations, the coastal State would have to ensure that a
contact point was to be provided ashore, with whom the ship could
communicate and who would be empowered to sign the DoS while, for
a ship not covered by a security plan, again there should be a designated
contact point ashore (in the coastal State) or on the ship designated
to sign the DoS.