IMO environmental regulations - Is there a case for change to the standard entry-into-force requirements?

Marine Technology and SNAME News

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 232-238

  Brookman, Colin S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BALLAST TANKS; HULLS (SHIP); LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MARINE POLLUTION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BALLAST WATER; TOXIC ANTIFOULING SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EID: 0036800936     PISSN: 19453582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (1972 COLREGS).
2. Environmental Protection Agency, 40 CFR 89 et al-Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From New Marine Compression-Ignition Engines at or Above 37 kW; Final Rule, December 1999.
3. International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, and its Protocol of 1988 (Load Line Convention).
4. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78).
5. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, and its Protocol of 1988 (SOLAS 74).
6. IMO Assembly Resolution A.774(18)-Guidelines for Preventing the Introduction of Unwanted Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens from Ships' Ballast Water and Sediment Discharges, November 1993.
7. IMO Assembly Resolution A.868(20)-Guidelines for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water to Minimize the Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens, November 1997.
8. IMO Assembly Resolution A.895(21)-Anti-fouling Systems used on Ships, November 1999.
9. IMO MEPC Resolution MEPC.46(30)-Measures to Control Potential Adverse Impacts Associated with use of Tributyl Tin Compounds in Antifouling Paints (1990).
10. IMO MEPC Resolution MEPC.88(44)-Implementation of Annex IV of MARPOL 73/78 (March 2000).
11. IMO MEPC Paper MEPC 45/4/2-Harmful Effects of the use of antifouling paints for ships-Conditions for entry into force of legal instrument (July 2000).
12. IMO Website-International Conventions, September 2000.
13. IMO Website-Summary of Status of Conventions, December 2000.
14. LSMI, 1989-Lloyd's Register of Shipping Maritime Information Publishing Group Statistical Tables, 1989.
15. LRS, 1999-Lloyd's Register of Shipping World Fleet Statistics, 1994, 1999.