Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans: Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995)
Chapter: Revised Guidelines for the Implementation of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78
Resolution MEPC.59(33)
(adopted on 30 October 1992)
Revised Guidelines for the Implementation of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78
THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,
RECALLING Article 38(c) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Marine Environment Protection Committee,
RECOGNIZING that Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78), provides regulations for the prevention of pollution by garbage from ships,
RECOGNIZING ALSO the necessity of providing guidelines to assist Governments in developing and enacting domestic laws and regulations which give effect to and implement Annex V of MARPOL 73/78,
NOTING that part IV (Garbage) of the Guidelines on. the Provision of Adequate Reception Facilities developed by the Organization in 1978,
BEING AWARE that the Committee at its twenty-sixth session modified the above-mentioned guidelines for garbage and developed guidelines for the implementation of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78 which were incorporated in the publication MARPOL 73/78, Consolidated Edition, 1991,
BEING ALSO AWARE that the Assembly at its seventeenth session adopted resolution A.719(17) on prevention of air pollution from ships, and requested the Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to develop environmentally based standards for incineration of garbage and other ship-generated waste,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment at its thirty-fifth session and the Sub-Committee on Bulk Chemicals at its twenty-second session regarding the standard specification for shipboard incinerators,
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ADOPTS the Revised Guidelines for the Implementation of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78; and
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RECOMMENDS Governments to implement the provisions of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78 in accordance with the revised guidelines.
