A group of IMO Member State Audit Scheme (IMSAS) auditors are today (15 July) receiving their first hands-on training on a new online module relating to the IMSAS auditing process, at IMO Headquarters, London. The GISIS Module is expected to go live in August 2015 and is designed to help with the planning through to the reporting phases of IMO Member State audits.
The Audit Scheme itself comes into effect on 1 January 2016 and is expected to bring about benefits such as the ability to identify where difficulties in the implementation and enforcement of IMO instruments are most acute and which capacity-building activities (e.g. technical assistance by IMO to a Member State) would have the greatest effect.