Port State control officers and the persons assisting them will have no commercial interest, either in the port of inspection or in the ships inspected, nor will port State control officers be employed by or undertake work on behalf of non-governmental organizations which issue statutory and classification certificates or which carry out the surveys necessary for the issue of those certificates to ships.
Inšpektorji za varnost plovbe in osebe, ki jim pomagajo, ne smejo imeti nobenega komercialnega interesa v pristanišču, v katerem opravljajo pregled, ali na pregledanih ladjah, inšpektorjev za varnost plovbe pa ne smejo zaposlovati oziroma ti ne smejo prevzeti dela za nevladne organizacije, ki izdajajo z zakonom predpisana spričevala in klasifikacijska spričevala ali opravljajo preglede, potrebne za izdajanje teh spričeval ladjam.