#TRAT2600717ATerritorial Implementation of Port Security Policy
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This order strengthens how port security is managed locally in France. Each departmental prefect must appoint a departmental port security contact to check that port authorities and port facility operators are actually applying required security measures. It also standardizes the security situation report for ports and port facilities, including local organization, anti-drug trafficking measures, security audits, European inspections, non-compliance follow-up, and passenger terminal checks. Port authorities, terminal operators, and local security committees should expect clearer reporting duties and closer coordination with prefectural services.
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Key Changes
- Departmental prefects must appoint a local port security contact within their services.
- Security situation reports for ports and port facilities must follow a defined structure covering organization, anti-drug trafficking measures, audits, inspections, and corrective actions.
- Local port security committees receive a clearer role in reviewing port security assessments, security plans, and security-sensitive infrastructure projects.
Obligations
What this law requires
Designate, by order, an agent within a service under the departmental prefect’s authority as the departmental port security contact responsible for verifying the effective implementation of port security measures by port authorities and port facility operators.
Ensure that the departmental port security contact liaises with the designated port security correspondents when identifying any port security non-compliance or breach, unless the contact is already one of those correspondents.
Include in the port and port facility security situation report a section on local port security organization and the involvement of relevant actors.
Include in the port and port facility security situation report information on maritime port protection against drug trafficking and security-related administrative investigations.
For each port, include in the security situation report the port authority, annual number of calls, validity of security documents, follow-up of national port security audits and European inspections, and a timetable of measures to remedy identified non-compliance.