MEPC 43/21
ANNEX 6
DRAFT ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION
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)
THE ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the function 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,
RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly, at its seventeenth session, when adopting resolution A.720(17), requested the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the Guidelines under review,
RECOGNIZING the need to supplement the Guidelines in order to clarify the procedures for the identification of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas and the adoption of associated protective measures,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Marine Environment Protection Committee at its forty-third session [and the NAV Sub-Committee at its forty-fifth session],
1. ADOPTS:
.1 new procedures for the identification of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas and the adoption of associated protective measures which supersede the procedures contained in paragraphs 3.2 and 3.5 of Annex to resolution A.720(17), the text of which is set out in Annex 1 to the present resolution; and
.2 amendments to the Guidelines contained in resolution A.720(17) as set out in Annex 2 to the present resolution;
2. INVITES Governments to apply the new procedures when proposing a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area;
3. REQUESTS the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the Guidelines and the annexed procedures under review.
