Annex 2
Secretariat of ISO/TC 8/SC 2
Marine Environment Protection
Date： 1998-09-01
Reference： ISO/TC 8/SC2 N52
Report from the Secretariat of ISO/TC 8/SC 2
1. TITLE： Marine Environment Protection
SCOPE： Standardization of marine pollution abatement materials, equipment and technologies and environmental matters to be used in shipbuilding and operation of ships, comprising sea-going ships, vessels for inland navigation, offshore structures, ship-to-shore interface and all other marine structures subject to International Maritime Organization requirements.
2. SECRETARIAT： ANSI (Scott A. Newsham)
Commandant (G-MSO-4)
U.S. Coast Guard
2100 Second Street, SW
Washington, DC 20593-0001
CHAIRMAN： Mr. Joseph J. Angelo
Commandant (G-MS)
U.S. Coast Guard (G-MS)
2100 Second Street, SW
Washington, DC 20593-0001
3. PARTICIPATION AND LIAISONS
.1 P-member bodies(13)： Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA(Secretariat)
.2 O-Member Bodies(6)： Bulgaria, Cuba, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine
.3 Liaisons： ISO/TC 67, TC 70, TC 146, TC 147, TC 188, TC 207, IMO (Cat A), OCIMF (Cat A), IACS (Cat A), ICS (Cat B), INTERTANKO (Cat B), ITOPF (pending)
.4 Changes since last plenary meeting of ISO/TC 8
Canada removed as P-member of SC 2 since it is no longer a P-member of TC 8. Bulgaria added as O-member. ITOPF has requested Liaison Cat B status.
4. CONSTITUTION
.1 Working groups：
.1 Discharge Control (Convener- none)
Environmental Response (Convener-ANSI(Ms. Blum))
.2 Changes since last ISO/TC 8 plenary： n/a
