Application
environment.
enables control measures prescribed by the Convention to be
of the Convention to Hong Kong
to
vessels foreign applied
addition, assistance
at calling
Kong. Hong
In
can be sought from other Contracting
Parties in
emergency handling
dumping situations and in
preventing or mitigating pollution caused by dumping.
Hong
Kong also
benefits
from collaborating
with
other
Contracting Parties
and
international bodies on technical
and equipment exchanges
monitoring and control.
in the field of marine pollution
Proposal
9.
The British
side
proposes that the Convention as
amended should continue to apply to the Hong Kong SAR after
30
June 1997 in accordance with the Joint Declaration.
The
PRC is a
amendments
referred to
will, therefore,
be
party to the Convention but has not accepted the
It
in paragraphs 4, 5 or 6 above. necessary for the CPG in some way to
indicate
to
all present
Contracting
Parties and all
which
become may
parties before 1 July 1997,
Governments
that all
from the
the international rights and obligations arising
the Convention as amended, to the extent to which
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