NOTING that article 17 of the
Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally
Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (the Convention) provides that the
Convention shall enter into force 24 months after the date on which
the following conditions are met:
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.1 not less than 15 States have either signed
it without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval,
or have deposited the requisite instrument of ratification, acceptance,
approval or accession in accordance with article
16;
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.2 the combined merchant fleets of the States
mentioned in paragraph 1.1 constitute not less than 40 per cent of
the gross tonnage of the world’s merchant shipping; and
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.3 the combined maximum annual ship recycling
volume of the States mentioned in paragraph 1.1 during the preceding
10 years constitutes not less than 3 per cent of the gross tonnage
of the combined merchant shipping of the same States,
RECOGNIZING that the responsibility for determining when
these entry-into-force conditions have been fulfilled lies with the
Secretary-General as Depositary,
INVITES the Secretary-General, when calculating the combined
maximum annual ship recycling volume of Contracting States as required
by article 17 of the Convention, to refer
to annually published statistical data on recycled gross tonnage of
shipping, on the following basis:
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.1 for each Contracting State, extract the “annual
ship recycling volume” for each of the preceding 10 years, by
reference to the data on total gross tonnage provided in the table
on disposals by country of breaking in that year’s Lloyd’s
Register-Fairplay annual publication World Casualty Statistics; and
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.2 determine “the maximum annual ship recycling
volume” by selecting the highest value occurring in the 10-year
period for each Contracting State.