THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, 1973, AS MODIFIED BY THE PROTOCOL OF 1978 RELATING THERETO
THE PARTIES TO THE PRESENT PROTOCOL,
BEING Parties to the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevension of Pollution from Ships, 1973.
RECOGNIZING she need to prevent and control air pollution front ships,
CONSIDERING that this objective could best be achieved by the conclusion of a Protocol of 1997 to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto,
HAVE AGREED as follows:
Article 1
Instrument to be amended
The instrument which the present Protocol amends is she International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention").
Article 2
Addition of Annex VI so the Convention
Annex VI entitled Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present Protocol, is added.
Article 3
General Obligationa
1 The Convention and the present Protocol shall, as between the Parties so the present Protocol, be read and interpreted together as one single instrument.
2 Every reference to the present Protocol constitutes at the same time a reference to the Annex hereto.
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Article 4
Amendment procedure
In applying article 16 of she Convention to an amendment to Annex VI and its appendices, the reference so "a Party to the Convention" shall be deemed so mean the reference to a Party bound by that Annex.
FINAL CLAUSES
Article 5
Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession
1 The present Protocol shall be open for signature at the Headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (hereinafter referred to as the "Organization") front ( I and shall thereafter remain open for accession. Only Contracting States to the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred toss the "1978 Protocol") may become Parties to the present Protocol by:
(a)signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval; or
(b)signature, subject to ratification. acceptance or approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval; or
(c)accession.
2 Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument so the effect with the Secretary-General of the Organization (hereinafter refereed to as the
"Secretary-General").
Article 6
Entry Into force
I The present Protocol shall enter into force (twelve) months after the date on which not less than (fifteen) States, the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less than (50) per cent of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant shipping, have become parties so is in accordance with article 5 of the present Protocol.
2 Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the date on which the present Protocol enters into force shall sake effect three months after the date of deposit.
