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,
RECOGNIZING FURTHER 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 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 by 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,
1. ADOPTS the Revised Guidelines for the Implementation
of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78; and
2. RECOMMENDS the Governments to implement the
provisions of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78
in accordance with the revised guidelines.