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Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its Fifty-Seventh Session, IMO Doc.
MEPC 57/21 (Apr. 7, 2008)
Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its Fifty-Eighth Session, IMO Doc.
MEPC 58/23 (16 October 2008)
Report of the Maritime Environmental Protection Committee on its Fifty-fifth Session, para. 3.46,
IMO Doc. MEPC 55/23 (Oct. 16, 2006) (hereinafter Report of the MEPC Fifty-Fifth Session)
Report of the Second Inter-sessional Meeting of the Working Group on Ship Recycling, IMO Doc.
MEPC 56/3 (11 May 2007) (hereinafter Second ISRWG Report)
Report of the Third Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on Ship Recycling, IMO Doc.
MEPC 57/3 (25 June 2008)
Report of the Working Group on Ship Recycling, IMO Doc. MEPC 57/WP.6 (3 April 2008)
(hereinafter MEPC 57/WP.6)
International Legal Instruments
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their
Disposal, opened for signature 23 March 1989, 1673 UNTS 57 (entered into force 5 May 1992)
Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships ,
opened for signature 1 September 2009, IMO Doc. SR/CONF/45 (19 May 2009) (not yet in
force)
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, opened for signature 10 December 1982, 1833
UNTS 3 (entered into force 16 November 1994)
Other Documents
Hossain MMM and Islam MM (2006) Ship Breaking Activities and its Impact on the Coastal Zone
of Chittagong, Bangladesh: Towards Sustainable Management. YPSA, Chittagong
Kanthak J and Bernstorff A, (1999) Ships for Scrap: Steel and Toxic Wastes for Asia. Greenpeace,
Hamburg
Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Conference on Recycling of Ships & Other Marine
Structures, Recycling is a Shore Based Industry (4-5 May 2005) (prepared by Chowdhury FR).