[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 81 (Thursday, April 27, 1995)]
[Unknown Section]
[Pages 20790-20791]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10338]



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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 2193]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; Subcommittee for the Prevention 
of Marine Pollution; Meeting

    The Subcommittee for the Prevention of Marine Pollution (SPMP), a 
subcommittee of the Shipping Coordinating Committee, will conduct an 
open meeting on May 19, 1994, from 9:30 am to 12 noon in Room 6103 of 
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street SW., Washington, DC.
    The purpose of this meeting is to seek input from the public to 
assist development of the U.S. position regarding the application of 
the precautionary approach to the International Maritime Organization's 
(IMO) work.
    At the 35th Session of the Marine Environmental Protection 
Committee (MEPC) of IMO in March, 1994, a Correspondence Group was 
established [[Page 20791]] with the following terms of reference: ``To 
develop guidelines on the application of the precautionary approach as 
set out in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration, as well as paragraphs 
17.21 and 17.22 of the United Nations Conference on Environment and 
Development, Agenda 21, in the context of specific IMO activities, and 
to report to the MEPC at its thirty-seventh session''.
    Work was carried out intersessionally to identify a working method 
to internalize the application of the precautionary approach. This work 
was carried into the 36th Session of the MEPC in November, 1994 where a 
drafting group developed draft ``Guidelines on the Application of the 
Precautionary Approach in the Context of Specific IMO Activities''. In 
this draft, the precautionary approach is further elaborated for the 
purpose of IMO. Additionally, the drafting group developed a draft 
``Framework for Implementation of the Precautionary Approach within the 
Programs and Activities of IMO'' which provides a working method to be 
used by IMO Committees, Sub-Committees, Working Groups and other IMO 
bodies to internalize the precautionary approach into the process of 
policymaking and management.
    The draft Guidelines and Framework are the subject of further 
consideration by the intersessional correspondence group, working 
toward tabling these documents at the 37th Session of the MEPC.
    Input or comments from the public meeting will be considered by 
members of the U.S. correspondence group in finalizing the U.S. 
position on these documents. For further information or copies of the 
drafts, contact the project officer, Commander Mike Farley, U.S. Coast 
Guard Headquarters (G-MEP-3), 2100 Second Street SW., Washington, DC 
20593-0001, Telephone: (202) 267-2850.

    Dated: April 18, 1995.
Charles A. Mast,
Chairman, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 95-10338 Filed 4-26-95; 8:45 am]
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