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The Assembly,

 RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,

 RECALLING ALSO resolution A.858(20) by which the Assembly, recognizing the need for an expeditious adoption and amendment procedure for traffic separation schemes, routeing measures other than traffic separation schemes, including the designation and substitution of archipelagic sea lanes, and ship reporting systems, resolved that all the aforementioned functions shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee on behalf of the Organization,

 NOTING the urgent need to implement the traffic separation schemes In Bornholmsgat and North of Rügen and amendments to the traffic separation schemes Off Gotland Island and South of Gedser; a recommended deep-water route in the eastern Baltic Sea, and new areas to be avoided at Hoburgs Bank and Norra Midsjöbanken proposed by the Governments of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden in order to enhance maritime safety, safety of navigation and protection of the marine environment in the area concerned, and the invitation by the Maritime Safety Committee at its eightieth session to the Assembly to adopt the routeing systems, subject to the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation being satisfied that all the pertinent criteria had been met,

 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas adopted by resolution A.927(22),

 HAVING NOTED the designation by the Marine Environment Protection Committee, by resolution MEPC.136(53), of the Baltic Sea Area as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) including the establishment of Associated Protective Measures (APMs),

 HAVING CONSIDERED the report of the Maritime Safety Committee at its eightieth session and the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-first session,

  1 ADOPTS the proposed traffic separation schemes “In Bornholmsgat” and “North of Rügen” and amendments to the traffic separation schemes “Off Gotland Island” and “South of Gedser”, set out in annex 1 to the present resolution;

  2 ADOPTS ALSO the new recommended deep-water route in the eastern Baltic Sea and the new areas to be avoided at Hoburgs Bank and Norra Midsjöbanken, set out in annex 2 to the present resolution;

  3 DECIDES that the routeing systems so adopted will be implemented at 0000 hours UTC on 1 July 2006;

  4 DECIDES FURTHER that the ships' routeing systems adopted in operative paragraphs 1 and 2 should be considered as the Associated Protective Measures (APMs) for the Baltic Sea Area;

  5 REQUESTS the Secretariat to issue, as soon as possible, the relevant COLREG.2 and SN circulars containing the aforementioned routeing systems.


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