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and leakages, incident reporting procedure, for preventing or minimizing pollu- 

 tion of the marine environment, 



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 

 Contracting Governments are obliged to issue, or cause to be issued, detailed in- 

 structions for the safe packing and stowage of specific dangerous goods or cate- 

 gories of dangerous goods which shall include any precautions necessary in rela- 

 tion to other cargo, 



Noting further the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code which was 

 prepared in implementation of Recommendation 56 of the International Con- 

 ference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1960, and has been recommended by the Orga- 

 nization as a luiiform basis upon which Governments should formulate the 

 national regulations envisaged in Chapter VII of the 1960 Safety Convention. 



Recognizing that provisions concerning substances discovered to be harmful to 

 the marine environment must he 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 results of such studies be directed towards the revision of the scope of 

 the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code or the development of a harm- 

 ful substance code, 



(i) that takes into account substances that are harmful to the marine environ- 

 ment 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 labelling, (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 Dangerous Goods Code for the systematic development of regulations 

 and standards for the carriage of harmful substances that represent a threat to 

 the marine environment so as to ensure compatibility between safety require- 

 ments and provisions relating to pollution abatement ; and 



(e) sucli particulars as referred to above in this paragraph form the l)asis for 

 the further development of the provisions of the Regulations contained in Annex 

 III of the 1973 Convention. 



IXTER-GOVERXMEXTAL MARITIME CONSULTATIVE ORGANIZATION, 



FEBRUARY 21, 1973 



Preparatory ^SIeetixg for the International Conference on Marine Pollution, 

 1973 — February 12-March 2, 1973 — Agenda Item 3 



minimization of accidental spillages of oil and other noxious substances 



from ships 



Draft Resolution 



Intentional Pollution of the Sea and Accidental Spillages 



The Conference, 



Noting that it was assigned the two following objectives by Resolution A. 237 

 (VII), adopted by the Assembly of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consulta- 

 tive Organization on 12 October 1971, 



(1) the complete elimination of willful and intentional pollution of the sea by 

 oil and noxious sulistances other than oil, and 



(2) the minimization of accidental spills ; 



these objectives to be achieved by 1975, if possible, but certainly by the end of 

 the decade ; 



R*'cognizing that primarily, it has been as a result of extensive preparatory 

 work will) in the Organization that the Conference has been able to prepare and 

 open for signature 



