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  2. Marpol Annex I - Wikipedia

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    Marpol Annex I details the discharge requirements for the prevention of pollution by oil and oily materials. It continues to enforce the oil discharge criteria described in the 1969 amendments to the 1954 Oil Pollution Convention. [4] It also introduces the idea of "special areas" which are considered to be at risk to oil pollution. Discharge ...

  3. MARPOL 73/78 - Wikipedia

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    The country where a ship is registered is responsible for certifying the ship's compliance with MARPOL's pollution prevention standards. Each signatory nation is responsible for enacting domestic laws to implement the convention and effectively pledges to comply with the convention, annexes, and related laws of other nations.

  4. International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution ...

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    The International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969, renewed in 1992 and often referred to as the CLC Convention, is an international maritime treaty admistered by the International Maritime Organization that was adopted to ensure that adequate compensation would be available where oil pollution damage was caused by maritime casualties involving oil tankers (i.e ...

  5. List of Philippine laws - Wikipedia

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    Philippine Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Act of 2016 2016-07-21: 10916: Road Speed Limiter Act of 2016 2016-07-21: 10917: Amending RA 9547 amendments to the Special Program for Employment of Students Actor RA 7323 2016-07-21: 10918: Philippine Pharmacy Act: Repealing the Pharmacy Act or RA 5921 2016-07-21: 10919

  6. Maritime environmental crime - Wikipedia

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    An example is the 2008 directive "on the protection of the environment through criminal law", [20] which ordered Member States to establish legal frameworks to prosecute maritime environmental offenses. [20] Subsequent amendments, such as in 2009, focused on the regulation of ship-source pollution levels and introducing penalties for violations ...

  7. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - Wikipedia

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    Here a state can continue to enforce laws in four specific areas (customs, taxation, immigration, and pollution) if the infringement started or is about to occur within the state's territory or territorial waters. [19] This makes the contiguous zone a hot pursuit area.

  8. Emission control area - Wikipedia

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    MARPOL is short for Marine Pollution. In 1979, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, the "first international legally binding instrument to deal with problems of air pollution" was signed. [3] In 1997 the regulations regarding air pollution from ships as described in Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention were adopted.

  9. List of international environmental agreements - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of international environmental agreements.. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.