1.3 This Guidance applies to the exercise of control
and compliance measures in respect of ships that are required to comply
with SOLAS chapter XI-2 and part A of the ISPS Code.
1.4 Contracting Governments should not give more
favourable treatment to ships flying the flag of a State which is
not a Contracting Government to SOLAS and not a Party to the 1988 SOLAS Protocol
footnote. Accordingly, the requirements of SOLAS regulation XI-2/9, the guidance provided
in part B of the ISPS
Code and this Guidance should be applied to those ships, (paragraph
B/4.45 of the ISPS Code).