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The Conference,

 RECALLING resolution A.719(17) adopted by the Assembly of the International Maritime Organization, which indicates that the objective of prevention of air pollution from ships would best be achieved by establishing a new annex to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78) to provide rules for restriction and control of emission of harmful substances from ships into the atmosphere,

 RECOGNIZING that the emission of nitrogen oxides from marine diesel engines installed on board ships has an adverse effect on the environment causing acidification, formation of ozone, nutrient enrichment and contributes to adverse health effects globally,

 BEING AWARE of the protocols and declarations to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution concerning, inter alia, the reduction of emission of nitrogen oxides or its transboundary fluxes,

 HAVING ADOPTED the Protocol of 1997 to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (the 1997 Protocol),

 NOTING regulation 13 of Annex VI of MARPOL 73/78 which makes the Technical Code on Control of Emission of Nitrogen Oxides from Marine Diesel Engines mandatory under that regulation,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Marine Environment Protection Committee at its thirty-ninth session,

  1. ADOPTS the Technical Code on Control of Emission of Nitrogen Oxides from Marine Diesel Engines (NOx Technical Code), the text of which is set out at annex to the present resolution;

  2. RESOLVES that the provisions of the NOx Technical Code shall enter into force, as mandatory requirements, for all Parties to the 1997 Protocol on the same date as the entry into force date of that Protocol;

  3. INVITES Parties to MARPOL 73/78 to implement the provisions of the NOx Technical Code in accordance with the provisions of regulation 13 of Annex VI; and

  4. URGES Parties to MARPOL 73/78 to bring the NOx Technical Code to the immediate attention of shipowners, ship operators, ship builders, marine diesel engine manufacturers and any other interested groups.

Parent topic: Resolution 2 - Technical Code on Control of Emission of Nitrogen Oxides from Marine Diesel Engines
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