Resolution A.966(24)

RELATIONS WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

(Adopted on 23 November 2005)

THE ASSEMBLY,

RECALLING Part XV of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization, in particular Article 62,

RECALLING ALSO that Rule 1 of the Rules Governing Relationship with Non-Governmental International Organizations requires that consultative status granted by the Council to such organizations be subject to approval by the Assembly,

RECALLING FURTHER that Rule 10 of the same Rules provides for periodic review by the Council of the list of non-governmental international organizations in consultative status with IMO and for a report to be submitted to the Assembly on the continuation, or otherwise, of such status,

NOTING the Guidelines on the Grant of Consultative Status, established by the Council at its fortieth session, and noting further the decision of the Council, at its eighty-sixth session, to amend the introduction to the Guidelines as well as Rules 1 and 5 of the Rules Governing Relationship with Non-Governmental International Organizations, in order to formalize the grant of provisional consultative status,

NOTING ALSO the decision of the Council, at its ninety-fourth session, to grant consultative status to the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC),

NOTING FURTHER the decision of the Council, at its twenty-third extraordinary session, to grant consultative status to the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA),

HAVING CONSIDERED the decision of the Council, at its ninety-fourth session, to retain the consultative status of INTERFERRY and the International Maritime Health Association (IMHA) on a provisional basis,

HAVING CONSIDERED ALSO the decision of the Council, at its twenty-third extraordinary session, to maintain the consultative status of the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS), the Latin American Shipowners’ Association (LASA) and Greenpeace International,

RECALLING that the Council, at its ninety-second session, had noted that the International Marine Transit Association/Interferry (IMTA-Interferry) had changed its name to INTERFERRY,

RECALLING ALSO that the Council, at its ninety-third session, had noted that the Association of European Shipbuilders and Shiprepairers (AWES) had changed its name to Community of European Shipyards’ Associations (CESA),

WELCOMING the action taken by the Council to remind all non-governmental organizations of the importance of their complying with their undertakings to the Organization under rule 4 of the Rules Governing Relationship with Non-Governmental International Organizations, and noting the undertakings expressed by all the non-governmental organizations,

NOTING that, in accordance with previous decisions of the Council, the attention of organizations in consultative status should be drawn to their obligations to take all appropriate steps to contribute to the work of IMO in their respective fields of work,

1. APPROVES the decision by the Council with regard to the grant of consultative status to the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) and the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA);

2. DECIDES to retain the consultative status of INTERFERRY and the International Maritime Health Association (IMHA) on a provisional basis;

3. ALSO DECIDES to maintain the consultative status of the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS) and the Latin American Shipowners’ Association (LASA);

4. FURTHER DECIDES to maintain the consultative status of Greenpeace International, subject to that organization undertaking not to endanger the safety of navigation or maritime security;

5. ENDORSES the decision of the Council regarding the maintenance of consultative status by the following remaining organizations: