The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships. The first version was adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 1929, the third in 1948, and the fourth in 1960. The 1974 version includes the tacit acceptance procedure - which provides that an amendment shall …
Proceedings of The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, was adopted by the International Conference on Marine Pollution convened by IMO from 8 October to 2 November 1973. This Convention was subsequently modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating there to adopted by the International Conference on Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention (TSPP Conference) conv…
Since the publication of the 1991 Consolidated Edition of MARPOL 73/78, the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) has met three times, for its thirty-second (March 1992), Thirty-third (November 1992 ) and thirty fourth (July 1993) session and adopted amendements to the Convention. (Jml)
Conference on the Establishment of an International Compensation Fund for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971 (Publication No. 420 B) SUPPLEMENT
Establishes a layout for standard methods of analysis of solutions in the visible and near ultra-violet regions. Gives some recommendations for their presentation and wording. The layout is preceded by a clause "Therminology and definitions", which supplements the information given in ISO 6286.