Independent journal on economy and transport policy
20:42 GMT+1
This page has been automatically translated by Original news
Approval of ECSA, ICS and BIMCO to the ok of the Parliament EU to ratifies of Convention HNS on the pollution caused from the ships
the field of the shipping - the shipowning associations have remembered - has started a campaign for its subscription and ready effectiveness
April 7, 2017
The shipowning associations European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and BIMCO have expressed satisfaction for the adoption of Wednesday by the European Parliament of the proposal of decision of the relative Council to ratify by sea and the adhesion to the protocol of 2010 of the international Convention on the responsibility and the compensation of the damages produced from the transport of dangerous and injurious substances (Convention HNS) regarding the relative aspects to the judicial cooperation in civil matter.
The three shipowning organizations have remembered that this is the last Convention of the Internazional Maritime Organization necessary to complete the international regime on the responsibilities and the compensations in case of pollution caused from the ships, Convention - they have remembered ECSA, ICS and BIMCO - relatively on which the field of the shipping has started a campaign for its ratifies and ready effectiveness.
ECSA, ICS and BIMCO have emphasized that with the approval of Wednesday the European Parliament has given the go-ahead free to the projects of decisions of the Council that authorize the Member States to ratify the protocol of 2016 to Convention HNS and that this opens the road to the completion of the iter near the EU with the adoption of the decisions of the Council in a its next reunion.
ECSA, ICS and BIMCO have exhorted the States of the European Union to ratify the protocol of the 2016 that will take effect, with consolidated Convention HNS of 2010, to 18 months from the date of ratify by at least 12 States, of which four with a fleet at least two million tons of tonnage.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
phone: +39.010.2462122, fax: +39.010.2516768, e-mail
VAT number: 03532950106
Press Reg.: nr 33/96 Genoa Court
Editor in chief: Bruno Bellio No part may be reproduced without the express permission of the publisher
The shipowning associations European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and BIMCO have expressed satisfaction for the adoption of Wednesday by the European Parliament of the proposal of decision of the relative Council to ratify by sea and the adhesion to the protocol of 2010 of the international Convention on the responsibility and the compensation of the damages produced from the transport of dangerous and injurious substances (Convention HNS) regarding the relative aspects to the judicial cooperation in civil matter.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
