RECOGNIZING ALSO the need to improve further the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships, particularly oil tankers, RECOGNIZING FURTHER the need for implementing the Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil contained in Annex I of that Convention as early and as widely as possible, ACKNOWLEDGING HOWEVER the need to defer the application of Annex II of that Convention until certain technical problems have been satisfactorily resolved, CONSIDERING that these objectives may best be achieved by the conclusion of a Protocol relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, HAVE AGREED as follows: Article I General Obligations 1. The Parties to the present Protocol undertake to give effect to the provisions of— (a) the present Protocol and the Annex hereto which shall constitute an integral part of the present Protocol; and (b) the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"), subject to the modifications and additions set out in the present Protocol. 2. The provisions of the Convention and the present Protocol shall be read and interpreted together as one single instrument. 3. Every reference to the present Protocol constitutes at the same time a reference to the Annex hereto. Article II Implementation of Annex II of the Convention 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 14(1) of the Convention, the Parties to the present Protocol agree that they shall not be bound by the provisions of Annex II of the Convention for a period of three years from the date of entry into force of the present Protocol or for such longer period as may be decided by a two-thirds majority of the Parties to the present Protocol in the Marine Environment Protection Committee (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee") of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (hereinafter referred to as "the Organization").
RECOGNIZING ALSO the need to improve further the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships, particularly oil tankers, RECOGNIZING FURTHER the need for implementing the Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil contained in Annex I of that Convention as early and as widely as possible, ACKNOWLEDGING HOWEVER the need to defer the application of Annex II of that Convention until certain technical problems have been satisfactorily resolved, CONSIDERING that these objectives may best be achieved by the conclusion of a Protocol relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, HAVE AGREED as follows: Article I General Obligations 1. The Parties to the present Protocol undertake to give effect to the provisions of— (a) the present Protocol and the Annex hereto which shall constitute an integral part of the present Protocol; and (b) the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"), subject to the modifications and additions set out in the present Protocol. 2. The provisions of the Convention and the present Protocol shall be read and interpreted together as one single instrument. 3. Every reference to the present Protocol constitutes at the same time a reference to the Annex hereto. Article II Implementation of Annex II of the Convention 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 14(1) of the Convention, the Parties to the present Protocol agree that they shall not be bound by the provisions of Annex II of the Convention for a period of three years from the date of entry into force of the present Protocol or for such longer period as may be decided by a two-thirds majority of the Parties to the present Protocol in the Marine Environment Protection Committee (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee") of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (hereinafter referred to as "the Organization").
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