• ISO 20858:2007 – “Ships and marine technology – Maritime port facility security assessments and security plan
development.” This standard establishes a framework to assist marine port facilities in specifying the competence
of personnel to conduct a marine port facility security assessment and to develop a security plan as required by the
ISPS code. In addition, it establishes certain documentation requirements designed to ensure that the process used
in performing the duties described above was recorded in a manner that would permit independent verification by
a qualified and authorized agency. It is not an objective of ISO 20858:2007 to set requirements for a contracting
Government or designated authority in designating a Recognized Security Organization (RSO), or to impose the use
of an outside service provider or other third parties to perform the marine port facility security assessment or security
plan if the port facility personnel possess the expertise outlined in this specification. Ship operators may be informed
that marine port facilities that use this document meet an industry-determined level of compliance with the ISPS code.
ISO 20858:2007 does not address the requirements of the ISPS code relative to port infrastructure that falls outside the
security perimeter of a marine port facility that might affect the security of the facility/ship interface. Governments have a
duty to protect their populations and infrastructures from marine incidents occurring outside their marine port facilities.
These duties are outside the scope of ISO 20858:2007.