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External sources (not reviewed)

it is authorized — whereas the detachments referred to in para. 1, are not established — and in any case within the limits established in paras. 5, 5-bis, 5-ter, the employment of “sworn guards”, authorized under articles 133 and 134 of the Unified law text on Public Security, approved with Royal Decree 18 of June 1931, No. 773, on board merchant ships flagged in Italy transiting in international waters referred to in para. 1, for the protection of the said ships.

the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia (S/2008/709), including on the fight against piracy off the coast of Somalia.

1985 on general provisions on ships’ routeing, as amended; IMO resolution A.671(16) of 19 October 1989 on safety zones and safety of navigation around offshore installations and structures; and IMO resolution A.672(16) of 19 October 1989 on guidelines and standards for the removal of offshore installations and structures on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone.

contributions amounting to $34,428.

Eastern Africa with the aim of providing port workers with skills to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and related stigma and discrimination in the workplace.

polar waters is essential to modernize and improve standards related to the design and operation of ships operating under such difficult conditions and to ensure appropriate training for mariners in such waters.

practices for protection against piracy, and the imprisonment of more than one thousand suspects or convicted pirates — contributed to a decline in the number of attacks and a reduction in successful attacks throughout 2011.

and Development; United Nations Development Programme Tumen Secretariat; Universal Postal Union; World Bank; and World Health Organization.

of the United Nations, the secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the secretariat of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, the United Nations Development Programme, the Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Joint Inspection Unit, the World Bank and the World Meteorological Organization.

HCFCs used for ship demurrage.

Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973/78 (MARPOL) was amended to provide a regulation for the loss of fishing gear that may be a substantial threat to the environment or the safety of navigation to be reported to the flag State, and, where the loss occurs in waters under the jurisdiction of another coastal State, to that State.

Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP) summarizing the state of marine pollution in the world’s oceans.

the Monitoring Group on Somalia pursuant to Security Council resolution 1811 (2008) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).

countries in order to mitigate the social impact of the deportee phenomenon.

national authorities, ECOWAS, the Economic Community of Central African States and the Gulf of Guinea Commission in establishing and building their capacity to respond to these multiple issues.

Activity Centre/Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information Training Centre in the Caribbean: (a) workshop on Geographical Information Systems for Oil Spill Response in the Caribbean in March 2004 in Willemstad, Curaçao; (b) workshop on regionalizing oil spill contingency planning in Central America in April 2004, in Managua; (c) workshop on oil spill preparedness, response and cooperation regionalization in Central America in April 2005 in Balboa, Panama; (d) ARPEL is a member of the Steering Committee and of the Regional Coordinating Committee of the Central American oil spill preparedness, response and cooperation project of Regional Activity Centre/Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information and Training Centre in the Caribbean.

illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and the development of a global record of fishing vessels, including unique vessel identifiers.

enable States to maintain efficient search and rescue services pursuant to article 98 of the Convention was highlighted.

other organizations concerned, to provide feedback to the Committee regarding differences between the provisions of national, regional or international legal instruments and those of the Model Regulations, in order to enable the Committee to develop cooperative guidelines for enhancing consistency between those requirements and reducing unnecessary impediments, to identify existing substantive and modal international, regional and national differences, with the aim of reducing such differences to the greatest extent practical and ensuring that differences, where they are necessary, do not pose impediments to the safe and efficient transport of dangerous goods, and to undertake an editorial review of the Model Regulations and various modal instruments with the aim of improving clarity, user-friendliness and ease of translation

steps to amend or update their legal instruments in order to give effect to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals or are considering amending them as soon as possible

by the subsidiary organs of the United Nations, such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and by multilateral negotiating bodies, such as the Conference on Disarmament.

equivalent to that established under the Basel Convention to the secretariat of the Basel Convention, and to consider attending COP-10 in order to share with the parties to the Basel Convention the views expressed by the mandate with regard to the shortcomings of the Hong Kong Convention.

Nations entities to further develop programmes on GNSS applications.

the marine environment, workshops on the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, ballast water management, oil spill issues and the handling of dangerous goods, a training workshop on the safety of maritime transport, and advisory missions to prepare a draft legislative bill and a draft national strategy for ballast water management in various African countries.