The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has actually revealed that conferences which were arranged to be kept in July, consisting of the following routine session of the IMO Council, have actually currently been held off, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, job has actually started to get ready for a modified conference program for the rest of 2020.
A top priority checklist of conferences has actually been prepared as well as will certainly be thought about by the Council at its thirty-second amazing session that will certainly be held by communication from May toJuly This complies with the thirty-first session of the Council that occurred, likewise by communication, in March to April.
The proposition for rescheduling conferences provides top priority to a routine session of the IMO Council, adhered to by conferences of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC)– which will certainly be come before by the 7th conference of the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships– as well as to the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC).
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Resuming physical conferences will certainly rely on support from the World Health Organization (THAT) as well as the UK Government, along with the scenario of IMO Member States.
In the meanwhile, the IMO Secretariat, in intermediary with various other UN companies as well as bodies, is discovering the usefulness of holding digital conferences, consisting of multilingual conferences with synchronised analysis right into the 6 main languages of the Organization.
The conferences which were arranged to be kept in July as well as have actually currently been held off are:
- the 124th session of the Council arranged to happen from 29 June to 3 July 2020;
- the 7th session of the Sub-Committee on Implementation of IMO Instruments arranged to happen from 20 to 24 July 2020; as well as
- the 16th conference of the Joint IMO/ITU Experts Group on Maritime Radiocommunication Matters arranged to happen from 6 to 10 July 2020– nonetheless, for this conference, different plans are presently present, in assessment with ITU as well as the Chair of the Experts Group (see Circular Letter No.4265).
The posts ponement remain in enhancement to those currently revealed formerly, specifically:
- the 7th session of the Sub-Committee on Human Element Training as well as Watchkeeping (HTW) arranged to happen from 1 to 5 June 2020;
- the 70th session of the Technical Cooperation Committee (TCC), arranged to happen from 15 to 18 June 2020.
- the 44th session of the Facilitation Committee (FAL), arranged to happen from 20 to 24 April;
- the 102nd session of the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), arranged to happen from 13 to 22 May.
- the second conference of the IMO Expert Group on Data Harmonization (IMO EG EGDH), arranged to happen from 27 April to 1 May;
- the port seminar “A Holistic approach to standards for port operational data in maritime supply chains”, arranged to happen on 30 April.
- the 7th conference of the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships, arranged to happen from 23 to 27 March 2020;
- the 33rd conference of the E&T Group (IMSBC), arranged to happen from 23 to 27 March 2020;
- the 75th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), arranged to happen from 30 March to 3 April 2020;
- the conference of the Scientific Group of the London Convention as well as London Protocol arranged to happen from 9 to 13 March 2020; as well as
- the 107th session of the Legal Committee (LEG), arranged to happen from 16 to 20 March 2020.
IMO Member States have actually been recommended by circular letter as well as e-mail to polite call factors.
