For the purpose of this Annex,
1 Polar Code means the International Code for
Ships Operating in Polar Waters, consisting of an introduction, parts I-A and II-A
and parts I-B and II-B, adopted by resolutions MSC.385(94) and MEPC.264(68), as may be amended, provided that:
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.1 amendments to the environment-related provisions of the
introduction and chapter 1 of part II-A of the Polar Code are adopted, brought into force and take
effect in accordance with the provisions of article
16 of the present Convention concerning the amendment procedures
applicable to an appendix to an annex; and
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.2 amendments to part II-B of the Polar Code are adopted by the Marine Environment
Protection Committee in accordance with its Rules of Procedure.
2 Arctic waters means those waters which are located north of a
line from the latitude 58º00΄.0 N and longitude 042º00΄.0 W to latitude 64º37΄.0 N,
longitude 035º27΄.0 W and thence by a rhumb line to latitude 67º03΄.9 N, longitude
026º33΄.4 W and thence by a rhumb line to the latitude 70º49΄.56 N and longitude
008º59΄.61 W (Sørkapp, Jan Mayen) and by the southern shore of Jan Mayen to 73º31'.6
N and 019º01'.0 E by the Island of Bjørnøya, and thence by a great circle line to
the latitude 68º38΄.29 N and longitude 043º23΄.08 E (Cap Kanin Nos) and hence by the
northern shore of the Asian Continent eastward to the Bering Strait and thence from
the Bering Strait westward to latitude 60º N as far as Il'pyrskiy and following the
60th North parallel eastward as far as and including Etolin Strait and thence by the
northern shore of the North American continent as far south as latitude 60º N and
thence eastward along parallel of latitude 60º N, to longitude 056º37΄.1 W and
thence to the latitude 58º00΄.0 N, longitude 042º00΄.0 W.
3 Polar waters means Arctic waters and/or the Antarctic area.