invite member states to take all possible legislative, administrative and technical measures:
a to ensure adequate and even implementation and enforcement of existing international rules in
the field of maritime safety;
b to ratify all the IMO's conventions and protocols thereto;
c to implement the Assembly's recommendations;
d to set up "no-go zones" for tankers and other ships with dangerous cargoes, so that these
vessels are not allowed to pursue courses which bring significant additional peril to those on
board, or to those maritime states which could be harmed by disaster;
e to ensure a tighter and more effective system of ship inspection;
f to provide adequate port facilities, especially for tank-cleaning, and ensure that these are
utilised;
g to replace ageing or out-dated tankers and other vessels and to encourage the construction of
ships designed to give absolute priority to safety;
h to ensure that each member state possesses appropriate disaster control capacity to respond
efficiently to emergencies, and to provide resources to enable rescue procedures to be carried
out;
i to ensure that, where a ship flies a flag of convenience, the condition of that vessel is required
to meet the standards of either the country under whose flag it sails, or the country in which
the company owning the vessel is based, whichever is the higher;
j to improve crew training and qualification standards;
k to introduce and enforce strict liability laws and tougher sanctions;
l to raise insurance cover above the level presently required, in order to match the possible cost
of ecological recovery of the affected areas, as well as the loss of profit suffered by the local
communities where accidents happen;
m to study the regulations in order to deter the premature abandonment of any vessel, especially
if it could be considered that the vessel is worth as much sunk as it is afloat.
