RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee,
NOTING that regulation 26 (now regulation 37) of Annex I and regulation 16 (now regulation 17) of Annex II of MARPOL 73/78 require ships to carry a shipboard
oil pollution emergency plan, a shipboard marine pollution emergency
plan for noxious liquid substances and/or a shipboard marine pollution
emergency plan in accordance with the Guidelines developed by the
Organization,
RECOGNIZING the urgent need for developing such Guidelines
in order to ensure uniform application of these regulations,
HAVING CONSIDERED at its thirty-second session proposals
for the Guidelines for the development of shipboard oil pollution
emergency plans and at its forty-fourth session further proposals
for Guidelines for the development of shipboard marine pollution emergency
plans for oil and/or noxious liquid substances,
1. ADOPTS the Guidelines for the development of
the shipboard marine pollution emergency plans for oil and/or noxious
liquid substances, the text of which is set out at the annex to the
present resolution;
2. URGES Governments to ensure that the shipboard
oil pollution emergency plans, the shipboard marine pollution emergency
plans for noxious liquid substances and/or the shipboard marine pollution
emergency plan are developed in accordance with these Guidelines when
approving them under the provisions of regulation 26 (now regulation 37) of Annex I and/or
regulation 16 (now regulation 17)
of Annex II of MARPOL 73/78, pending their entry into force.