6.3 Compliance incentive systems

  6.3.1 The augmentation of port reception facilities to serve ship traffic without undue delay or inconvenience may call for capital investment from port and terminal operators as well as the garbage management companies serving those ports. Governments are encouraged to evaluate means within their authority to lessen this impact, thereby helping to ensure that garbage delivered to port is actually received and disposed of properly at reasonable cost or without charging special fees to individual ships. Such means could include, but are not limited to:

• .1 tax incentives;

• .2 loan guarantees;

• .3 public vessel business preference;

• .4 special funds to assist in problem situations such as remote ports with no land-based garbage management system in which to deliver ships' garbage;

• .5 government subsidies; and

• .6 special funds to help defray the cost of a bounty programme for lost, abandoned or discarded fishing gear or other persistent garbage. The programme would make appropriate payments to persons who retrieve such fishing gear, or other persistent garbage other than their own, from marine waters under the jurisdiction of government.

  6.3.2 The minimization of taking packaging on board and the installation of shipboard garbage management handling and processing equipment would facilitate compliance with Annex V and lessen the burden on port reception facilities to process garbage for discharge. Therefore, governments might consider actions to encourage the reduction of packaging and the installation of certain types of garbage processing equipment on ships operating under its flag. For example, programmes to lessen costs to shipowners for purchasing and installing such equipment, or requirements for installing compactors, incinerators and comminuters during construction of new ships could be very helpful.

  6.3.3 Governments are encouraged to consider the economic impacts of domestic regulations intended to ensure compliance with Annex V. Due to the highly variable nature of ship operations and configurations, consideration should be given in domestic regulations to permitting ships the greatest range of options for complying with Annex V. However, any range of options needs to be consistent with Annex V and should facilitate the implementation of and compliance with Annex V.

  6.3.4 Governments are encouraged to support research and development of technology that facilitates compliance with Annex V regulations for ships and ports. This research should concentrate on:

• .1 minimization of packaging;

• .2 shipboard garbage handling systems;

• .3 ship provision innovations to minimize garbage generation;

• .4 loading, unloading and cleaning technologies to minimize dunnage, spillage and cargo residues;

• .5 new ship construction design to facilitate garbage management and transfer and to minimize retention of cargo in ship holds; and

• .6 wharf and berth design to facilitate garbage management and transfer.

  6.3.5 Governments are encouraged to work within the Organization to develop port reception systems that simplify the transfer of garbage for international vessels.