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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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