Underlining the need to ensure the safe and environmentally sound management of ships dismantling in order to protect human health and the environment, Recalling Decision VII/26 of the Basel Convention which recognises the importance of the environmentally sound management of dismantling of ships and notes that a ship may become waste as defined in Article 2 of the Basel Convention and that at the same time it may be defined as a ship under other international rules, Recognising the need to establish mandatory requirements adopted at global level ensuring an efficient and effective solution to the problem of ship recycling and ensuring safe and environmentally sound management of ship dismantling, Recognising the need for inter-agency coope
...[+++]ration between ILO, IMO and the Basel Convention in the Joint Working Group on Ship Scrapping in considering matters related to ship dismantling, with a view to developing a ship reporting system as soon as possible, Decides to invite, through the appropriate channels, the International Maritime Organisation to establish mandatory requirements for a ship reporting system, that ensure an equivalent level of control as established under the Basel Convention, Decides to invite, through the appropriate channels, the IMO to develop a reporting system within the shortest possible time period, taking into account the principle of prior informed consent and including, inter alia, a contract, a ship-recycling plan, a green passport and a single list of the on-board hazardous materials".
