The Parties to the Present Protocol,
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The Parties to the Present Protocol,

 RECOGNIZING the significant contribution which can be made by the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, to the protection of the marine environment from pollution from ships,

 RECOGNIZING ALSO the need to improve further the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships, particularly oil tankers,

 RECOGNIZING FURTHER the need for implementing the Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil contained in Annex I of that Convention as early and as widely as possible,

 ACKNOWLEDGING HOWEVER the need to defer the application of Annex II of that Convention until certain technical problems have been satisfactorily resolved,

 CONSIDERING that these objectives may best be achieved by the conclusion of a Protocol relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973,

 HAVE AGREED as follows:

Parent topic: Articles of the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973
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