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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, the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships and other matters concerning the effect of shipping on the marine environment,

 RECALLING ALSO resolution A.720(17) by which the Assembly adopted the Guidelines for the Designation of Special Areas and the Identification of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas and requested the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the Guidelines under review,

 RECALLING FURTHER resolution A.885(21), by which the Assembly adopted “Procedures for the Identification of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas and the Adoption of Associated Protective Measures” and “Amendments to the Guidelines Contained in Resolution A.720(17)” and also requested the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to keep those Procedures and Guidelines under review,

 NOTING resolution A.927(22), by which it adopted: (a) new “Guidelines for the Designation of Special Areas under MARPOL 73/78”, as set out in annex 1 to that resolution, which superseded chapter 2 of the annex to resolution A.720(17) and (b) new “Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas”, as set out in annex 2 to that resolution, which superseded chapter 3 of the annex to resolutions A.720(17) and A.885(21); and by which it also revoked resolutions A.720(17) and A.885(21) and requested the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the new Guidelines under review,

 REAFFIRMING that these Guidelines are to be implemented in accordance with international law,

 RECOGNIZING the need to clarify and, where appropriate, strengthen certain aspects and procedures for the identification and subsequent designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas and the adoption of associated protective measures through amendments to the Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Marine Environment Protection Committee at its fifty-third session:

  1 ADOPTS the revised Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas as set out in the annex, which supersede those in annex 2 of resolution A.927(22);

  2 REQUESTS both the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the revised Guidelines under review;

  3 REVOKES annex 2 of resolution A.927(22).

Parent topic: IMO Resolution A.982(24) – Revised Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas – (Adopted on 1 December 2005)
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