Table of abbreviations
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Table of abbreviations

BC – The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, 1989, or the “Basel Convention”

BIMCO – Baltic and International Maritime Council

COP of Basel – Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention

DWM – Downstream Waste Management

ESM – Environmental Sound Management

HKC – Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling, 2009

ICJ – The International Court of Justice

ICS – The Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling

IHM – The Inventory of Hazardous Materials

ILO – The International Labour Organization, 1919

IMO – The International Maritime Organization, 1948

IRRC – International Ready for Recycling Certificate

MARPOL – The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978, or “MARPOL 73/78”

MEPC – Marine Environment Protection Committee

OECD – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1961

OWEG – Open-Ended Working Group of the Basel Convention

PIC – Prior Consent Procedure

SBC – Secretariat of Basel Convention

SESSR – Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling

SOLAS – The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974

SRF/s – Ship Recycling Facility/s

SRFP – Ship Recycling Facility Plan

SRP – Ship Recycling Plan

TGB – Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of the Full and Partial Dismantling of Ships

VCLT – The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969