national Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the World Health 

 Organization (WHO). 



Future action will cover the joint provision of scientific 

 and technical advice, exchange, and dissemination of informa- 

 tion and development of future international legislation for the 

 control of pollution. All aspects of marine pollution will be 

 covered — health, fisheries, oily and radioactive substances, 

 other pollutants, pertinent marine research, control, and moni- 

 toring. 



The Secretary-General proposed that the General Assem- 

 bly urged continued action by U. N. agencies on the problems of 

 marine pollution, and urge all Member States to cooperate with 

 the organizations and take steps toward adopting effective new 

 international agreements to prevent and control pollution. He 

 noted that new programs would require the establishment of a 

 Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine 

 Pollution by FAO, IOC, and IMCO as well as other agencies 

 that might wish to join in. This group met for the first time 

 in January, 1969. 



There is a great deal of present and future activity planned 

 in this area by the United Nations. The FAO is developing an 

 active program which will include the convening in 1970 of a 

 Technical Conference on Marine Pollution and its Effects on 

 Fishery Resources and Fishing. There is coverage of pollu- 

 tion problems in the United States proposal for an International 

 Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). The International Bio- 

 logical Program (IBP) launched by the International Council 

 of Scientific Unions (ICSU) is concerned with man's effects 

 on the biological productivity of his environment and specific 

 programs include many studies of pollution problems. The 

 International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Nat- 

 ural Resources ( lUCN ) is becoming interested in marine pollu- 

 tion, and the International Association for Water Pollution Re- 

 search (lAWPR) has broadened its activities from primary con- 

 cern with inland water pollution. 



New Pollution Conventions. In the report discussed above, 

 the Secretary-General explicitly suggested that pollution agree- 

 ments be adopted in addition to the Convention for the Pollu- 

 tion of the Sea by Oil of 1954. As a result of the TORREY 

 CANYON disaster, IMCO has extended the terms of reference 

 under the Convention of its relevant study groups to "other 

 noxious substances" than oil in connection with accidents at 

 sea involving bulk carriers. It has been recently suggested 

 by Roy I. Jackson, Assistant Director-General (Fisheries) of 

 the FAO that broadening of the 1954 Convention to control 

 all types of discharges from ships might not be the most prac- 

 ticable solution to the problem of pollution control. The most 

 effective approach might be establishing a series of regional sea- 

 area agreements such as the International Council for the Ex- 



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