[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 7532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3380]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4604]


Shipping Coordinating Committee

SUMMARY: The U.S. Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an 
open meeting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 in Room 2415 at U.S. 
Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC. The 
purpose of this meeting is to prepare for the Eighty-Eighth Session of 
the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Legal Committee (LEG 
88) scheduled from April 19, to April 23, 2004.
    The provisional LEG 88 agenda calls for the Legal Committee to 
review the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the 
Safety of Maritime Navigation, 1988, and its Protocol of 1988 relating 
to Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (SUA Convention and 
Protocol). Also the Committee will examine the draft Wreck Removal 
Convention. To be addressed as well is the Provision of Financial 
Security which includes a progress report on the work of the Joint IMO/
ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group on Liability and Compensation regarding 
claims for Death, Personal Injury and Abandonment of Seafarers, and 
includes follow-up resolutions adopted by the International Conference 
on the Revision of the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of 
Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974. The Legal Committee will 
examine places of refuge, measures to protect crews and passengers 
against crimes committed on vessels, as well as monitoring of the 
implementation of the HNS Convention, access of news media to the 
proceedings of institutionalized committees, and matters arising from 
the twenty-second extraordinary session of the Council and the twenty-
third regular session of the Assembly. Finally the committee will 
review technical cooperation: Subprogramme for maritime legislation in 
addition to allotting time to address any other issues that may arise 
on the Legal Committee's work program.
    Members of the public are invited to attend the SHC meeting up to 
the seating capacity of the room. To facilitate the building security 
process, those who plan to attend should call or send an e-mail two 
days before the meeting. Upon request, participating by phone may be an 
option. For further information please contact Captain Joseph F. Ahern 
or Lieutenant Martha Rodriguez, at U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Maritime 
and International Law (G-LMI), 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20593-0001; e-mail [email protected], telephone (202) 267-1527; 
fax (202) 267-4496.

    Dated: February 4, 2004.
Steve Poulin,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 04-3380 Filed 2-13-04; 8:45 am]
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