Oslo Convention definition

Oslo Convention means the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft signed in Oslo on 15th February 1972, as amended by the protocols of 2nd March 1983 and 5th December 1989.
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Examples of Oslo Convention in a sentence

  • Cluster munitions In accordance with the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Oslo Convention), Denmark has com- mitted itself to destroying the Danish stockpiles of cluster munitions.

  • The Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the date on which all Contracting Parties to the Oslo Convention and all Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention have deposited their instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

  • Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Article, decisions, recommendations and all other agreements adopted under the Oslo Convention or the Paris Convention shall continue to be applicable, unaltered in their legal nature, to the extent that they are compatible with, or not explicitly terminated by, the Convention, any decisions or, in the case of existing recommendations, any recommendations adopted thereunder.

  • If the vessel does not have a tonnage certificate compliant with the Oslo Convention, tonnage shall be evaluated on the basis of the 1969 Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships (London Convention) as follows: The BT figures shall be multiplied by 0.25 (roro vessels) or by 0.4 (lolo vessels).

  • The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic9 (the “OSPAR Convention”) was developed from the 1972 Oslo Convention on dumping waste at sea and the 1974 Paris Convention on land-based sources of marine pollution.

Related to Oslo Convention

  • STCW Convention means the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978;

  • Warsaw Convention means the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, October 12, 1929, as amended, but not including the Montreal Convention as defined above.