GloBallast Monograph Series No.17-Guidelines for National Ballast Water Status Assessment

One of the primary objectives of the GloBallast Partnerships Programme is to promote legal and institutional reforms including ratification of the Ballast Water Convention, and the development of national policies, legislation and strategies for ballast water management – particularly in the Lead Countries of the project, but also more broadly. The starting point for such a reform process is an assessment of the current status of ballast water issues in the country concerned – from the point of view of both environmental impacts and management measures