HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 7/7

RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING RECORDING OF FUEL OIL BUNKERING
OPERATIONS IN THE OIL RECORD BOOK AND DOCUMENTATION FOR
THE USE OF RECEPTION FACILITIES

     
Adopted 12 February 1986
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING HELCOM Recommendation 4/2 on the use and recognition of the revised forms of International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP) Certificate and Oil Record Book agreed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) (MEPC/Circ.99),

RECALLING ALSO that the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of IMO at its 21st session adopted a recommendation on recording of fuel oil bunkering operations in the Oil Record Book (MEPC/Circ.146),

RECALLING FURTHER that MEPC at the same session adopted a recommendation on the use of reception facilities (.MEPC/Circ.145),

RECOGNIZING that the frequency of reports on fuel oil spills associated with bunkering operations shows the desirability to have a verification of the place, time and date, and of the type and quantity of fuel oil received by ships when bunkering,