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Convention on the High Seas , opened for signature 29 April 1958, 450 UNTS 82 (entered into
force 30 September 1962)
Convention on the International Maritime Organization , opened for signature 6 March 1948,
289 UNTS 48 (entered into force 17 March 1958)
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter ,
opened for signature 29 December 1972, 11 ILM 1294 (entered into force 30 August 1975)
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)
International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship s Ballast Water and Sediments

(hereinafter BWM Convention), 2004, IMO Doc. BWM/ CONF/36 (2004) reprinted in ATNIF
(2005) 18 (not yet in force)
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, opened for signature
2 November 1973, 1340 UNTS 184 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 to the 1973
Convention , opened for signature 17 February 1978, 1341 UNTS 3 (entered into force
2 October 1983) (MARPOL 73/78). For most recent version see MARPOL: Consolidated
Edition 2011 (IMO, London, 2011) (hereinafter MARPOL 73/78)
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage , opened for signature
29 November 1969, 973 UNTS 3, (entered into in force 19 June 1976), as amended by the
1976 Protocol to the 1969 Convention, 16 ILM 617 (entered into in force 8 April 1981)
(hereinafter CLC 69)
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation , opened for
signature 30 November 1990, 30 ILM 733 (entered into force 13 May 1995)
International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships 2001, IMO
Doc. AFS/CONF/26 (5 October 2001) (entered into force 17 September 2008)
International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil
Pollution Damage , opened for signature 18 December 1971 1110 UNTS 57 (entered into force
16 October 1978), as amended by the 1976 Protocol to the 1971 Fund Convention, 16 ILM
621 (entered in force 22 November 1994) (ceased to operation 24 May 2002)
International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution
Casualties , opened for signature 29 November 1969, 9 ILM 25 (entered into force 6 May 1975)
as amended by the 1973 Protocol Relating to Intervention On the high Seas in Cases of Marine
Pollution by Substances other than Oil , opened for signature 2 November 1973, 13 ILM
650 (entered into force 30 March 1983)
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, opened for signature 10 December 1982, 1833
UNTS 3 (entered into force 16 November 1994)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , opened for signature 4 June 1992,
1771 UNTS 107 (entered into force 21 March 1994)

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United Nations and IMO Documents

Resolution MEPC.203(62), Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on Its Sixty-
Second Session, ANNEX 19, IMO Doc. MEPC 62/24/Add.1 (26 July 2011)
Revised Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas ,
IMO Doc. A24/Res.982 (6 February 2006)
Strategic Plan for the Organization (for the Six-Year Period 2012 to 2017 ), IMO Doc. A
27/Res.1037 (20 December 2011)