Professional paper
SHIPBOARD AND SHORE-BASED MARINE POLLUTION EMERGENCY PLANS FOR OIL AND/OR NOXIOUS LIQUID SUBSTANCES
Fabio Giacometti
Abstract
Among amendments of the MARPOL 73/78 convention, accepted on March13, 2000, there is new Regulation 16 of Annex II which is in correlation with new the Regulation 26 of Annex I and binds ships transporting oil and/or noxious liquid substances to make a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for oil and/or noxious liquid substances. The dead line for preparing the Plan was January 1, 2003.
The shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious liquid substances is an innovation for ships carrying dangerous cargo, but was standard for tankers transporting fuel oil and oil products.
All shore-based firms in Croatia, manufacturing devices and equipments that might cause the environmental pollution, are bound by such marine pollution emergency plans according to the Law on environmental protection (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia 82/94) and to the Maritime Code (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia 17/94, 74/94, 43/96)
The minimum demands for a shore-based marine pollution emergency plan for oil and/or noxious liquid substances are defined in the Croatian plan for water protection (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia 8/99), while the minimum demands for a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for oil and/or noxious liquid substances are defined in the Guidelines for the Development of Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plans for Oil and/or Noxious Liquid Substances.(MEPC 44/20).
This paper aims at presenting how this problem is to be approached to, the similarities and differences of these two documents as well as the similarities and differences in case of shore-based or shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plans for Oil and/or Noxious Liquid Substances.
Keywords
MARPOL, Annex II, Regulation 16; Marine Pollution Emergency Plans for Oil and/or Noxious Liquid Substances
Hrčak ID:
4003
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Publication date:
29.6.2006.
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