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Having noted the Regulations relating to the safe carriage of dangerous goods 

 by sea as set out in Chapter VII of the International Convention for the Safety of 

 Life at Sea, 1960, in particular, Regulation 1(d) of that Chapter by which Con- 

 tracting Governments are obliged to issue, or cans*' to be issued, detailed instruc- 

 tions for the safe packing and storage of specific dangerous goods or categories of 

 dangerous goods which shall include any precautions necessary in relation to 

 other cargo. 



Noting further the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code which was 

 prepared in implementation of Recommendation 56 of the International Confer- 

 ence on Safety of Life at Sea, 1960. and has l)een recommended by the Organiza- 

 tion as a uniform basis upon which Governments should formulate the national 

 regulations envisaged in Chapter VII of the Safety Convention, 



Recognizing that provisions concerning substances discovered to be harmful 

 to the marine environment must be specified and be complementary to those 

 which have been adopted for the carriage of dangerous goods by sea, 



Recommends that 



(a) the Organization pursue and encourage studies of the impact that the car- 

 riage of harmful substances by sea may have upon the marine environment : 



(b) the result of such studies be directed towards the revision of the scope of 

 the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code or the development of a 

 harmful substance code, that takes into account (i) substances that are harmful 

 to the marine environment but which are not classed as dangerous goods: (ii) 

 the minimization of the threat to the marine environment that arises from the 

 carriage by sea of the substances that will be enumerated in such codes ; and 

 (iii) safety in maritime transport ; 



(c) in such revision or development particular account be taken of (i) packag- 

 ing, (ii) marking and labeling, (iii) documentation, (iv) stowage, (v) quantity 

 limitations, (vi) exceptions, and (vii) arrangements for recovery: 



(d) Contracting States consider adoption of the format of the International 

 Maritime Goods Code for the systematic development of regulations and stand- 

 ards for the carriage of harmful substances that represent a threat to the marine 

 environment so as to ensure compatibility between safety requirements and pro- 

 visions relating to pollution abatement ; and 



(e) the recommended practices and guidelines in the attached Appendix 

 to this Resolution form the basis for the subsequent development of the pro- 

 vision for inclusion in an Annex to the International Convention for the Pre- 

 vention of Pollution from Ships, 1973. 



Invites Governments 



(a) to adopt, pending the development of such Convention provisions, the 

 recomemndations contained in the Appendix as a basis for national measures ; 

 and 



(b) to issue or cause to be issued detailed instructions on packaging, marking 

 and labelling, documentation, storage, quantity limitations, discharge bv jet- 

 tisoning and leakages [and incident reporting procedure], for preventing or 

 minimizing pollution of the marine environment by harmful substances. 



Appendix To Draft Resolution — Recommendations for the Prevention 

 BY Harmful Substances Carried by Sea in Packaged Form, or in 

 Cargo Containers or in Portable Tanks 



recommendation 1 — application 



(1) Unless expressly provided otherwi.se, the.se recommendations apply vn 

 all ships carrying harmful substances in pacakaged form, or in cargo con- 

 tainers or in portable tanks. 



(2) For the purpose of this Appendix empty receptacles, cargo containers 

 and portable tanks which have been us(>cl previously for the carriage of harmful 

 substances should them.selves be treated as harmful substances unless adequate 

 precautions have been taken to ensure that they contain no residue that is haz- 

 ardous to the marine environment. 



