IMO’s mandatory Audit Scheme: an analysis of IMO’s enforcement power

Abstract

The subject of this thesis is IMO’s mandatory Audit Scheme and the measures the IMO can take to enforce such a scheme. The issues regarding this scheme is, first, the question whether the founding document of the IMO, the IMO Convention, establishes a mandate under which the IMO can implement and enforce a mandatory Audit Scheme, and, secondly, the measures IMO Member States can take to enforce the Audit Scheme in relation to other Members to ensure compliance with IMO legislation.