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Proposed by Badlamshade
of
The Kingdom of Corisus


This Proposal is a revamped version of HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #11 ("Ban Single-Hulled Tankerswhich") was Passed on Mon Apr 28, 2003 and was Repealed on Sun Mar 30, 2008 by RESOLUTION #244 (Repeal "Ban Single-Hulled Tankers")for good reason, it was simply rhetoric.

HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #11 Link
http://www.nationstates.net/67712/page=UN_past_resolutions/start=10

RESOLUTION #244 Link
http://www.nationstates.net/67712/page=UN_past_resolutions/start=243

I must possess two endorsements to lodge this proposal. If anyone has any suggestions on this proposal dont be shy this is my 1st resolution.

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International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards of Single Hull Tankers Transporting Heavy Fuel Oil



To prevent oil spills in all oceans of the world.


The Phaseout of Single Hull Tankers Transporting Heavy Fuel Oil

Article 1 §
Single hull tankers transporting heavy fuel oil are now required to meet a new set of deadlines for phaseout or conversion to double hulls to continue to transport heavy grades of oil by June 11 of the corresponding year as per category, as per date delivered. The phase out schedule is as follows in Article 1 § - Secion A, Secion B, Secion C.

Secion A
Category 1 - oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above but less than the tonnage specified for Category 2 which are not equiped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks
are prohibited from the transport of heavy grades of oil such as crude oil, fuel oils, bitumen and tar effective immediately and will be requiered to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil.

Date or year
effective immediately

Category 2 - oil tankers of 20,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil or lubricating oil as cargo, and of 30,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying other oils, which do not comply with the requirements for protectively located segregated ballast tanks.

Date or year
2009 for ships delivered in 1980 or earlier,
2010 for ships delivered in 1981, and
2011 for ships delivered in 1982 or later.

Section B
Category 3 - oil tankers of 20,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil or lubricating oil as cargo, and of 30,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying other oils, which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements.

Date or year
2009 for ships delivered in 1975 or earlier,
2010 for ships delivered in 1976,
2011 for ships delivered in 1977,
2012 for ships delivered in 1978 and 1979,
2013 for ships delivered in 1980 and 1981,
2014 for ships delivered in 1982,
2015 for ships delivered in 1983, and
2016 for ships delivered in 1984 or later.

Section C
Category 4 - oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above but less than the tonnage specified for Category 1 and 2 tankers which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements. .

Date or year
2009 for ships delivered in 1975 or earlier,
2010 for ships delivered in 1976,
2011 for ships delivered in 1977,
2012 for ships delivered in 1978 and 1979,
2013 for ships delivered in 1980 and 1981,
2014 for ships delivered in 1982,
2015 for ships delivered in 1983, and
2016 for ships delivered in 1984 or later.

Article 2 §
Exemption of the deadlines put forth in Article !§ and of its Section's for phaseout or conversion to double hulls to continue to transport heavy grades oils is are as follows in Section A and Section B.

Section A
Exemption 1: Warships, naval auxiliary ships and other government vessels are exempt from the phaseout.

Section B
Exemption 2: A tanker of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying heavy grades of oil as cargo if the ship is engaged in voyages exclusively within an area under the flag state’s jurisdiction and will be subject to law of that Nation.

Article 3 §
Ensuring the safe and clean breaking of these ships to encourage the creation of enough ship recycling capacity to absorb all the older single hull tankers taken out of service member governments will have till June 11, 2009 to take steps to maintain adequate ship recycling facilities at a worldwide level and promote research and development programs to improve environment and safety level in ship recycling operations.

Article 4 §
To ensure that conversion modifications from single hull tankers to double hulls tankers are carried out, a condition assessment requires enhanced and transparent verification of the reported structural condition of the ship and verification that the documentary and survey procedures have been properly carried out and completed.

Section A
The country where a ship is registered [flag state] is responsible for certifying the ship’s compliance with pollution prevention standards

Section B
The country that the ship visits can conduct its own examination to verify a ship’s compliance with International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards and can detain the ship if it finds significant noncompliance.

Section C
When incidents occur outside such country's jurisdiction or jurisdiction cannot be determined, the country refers cases to the vessels flag state.

Article 5 §
A fine will be issued for non compliance with the said International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards opon failure of an examination in the jurisdiction that the vessel is visiting or may be refered to Article 4 § , Section C of this Resolution; for a fee of 5% of the gross value of the cargo for 1st offence, 15% of the gross value of the cargo for 2nd offence, 30% of the gross value of the cargo for 3rd offence, 45% of the gross value of the cargo for 4th offence and confiscation of the ship for recycling.

Article 6 §
Signatory Nation's are responsible for enacting domestic laws to implement this Resolution and effectively pledges to comply with this Resolution, Articles, Section's here in.

OOC:
I didn't read through the entire proposal, but your approach is new and interesting. :)

Would you mind talking OOC and providing some stats for countries like the US, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands about our fleets or perhaps recommending some sites we can visit to get a better feel for how we might want to roleplay.

My second suggestion would be to make a flow chart or picture in addition to your current text.

This would appear to be heavily copied from the RL MARPOL document. It's sufficiently snipped that I don't know whether it counts as plagiarism or not - I mean, certainly very little of the content is yours, but you have at least edited it down and added in section dividers - but it is probably a bad idea. For a start, the mods have said in the past that proposals that have phased implementation are generally illegal. Proposals have an immediate mechanical effect on passing, not a delayed one. So you will need to at least check whether you can have such a system for a WA proposal.

Section B
Category 3 - oil tankers of 20,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil or lubricating oil as cargo, and of 30,000 dead weight tonnage and above carrying other oils, which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements.

Date or year
2009 for ships delivered in 1975 or earlier,
2010 for ships delivered in 1976,
2011 for ships delivered in 1977,
2012 for ships delivered in 1978 and 1979,
2013 for ships delivered in 1980 and 1981,
2014 for ships delivered in 1982,
2015 for ships delivered in 1983, and
2016 for ships delivered in 1984 or later.

Section C
Category 4 - oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above but less than the tonnage specified for Category 1 and 2 tankers which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements. .

Date or year
2009 for ships delivered in 1975 or earlier,
2010 for ships delivered in 1976,
2011 for ships delivered in 1977,
2012 for ships delivered in 1978 and 1979,
2013 for ships delivered in 1980 and 1981,
2014 for ships delivered in 1982,
2015 for ships delivered in 1983, and
2016 for ships delivered in 1984 or later.
Can't you replace all that verbiage with "launch date + 36 years", or some similar number? Not everyone considers this to be 2008, and that sidesteps the issue entirely.

Hey, guyz Ive made some changes hope this works a little better hope to hear more of your input!



Proposal for the Phaseout of Single Hull Tankers Carrying Heavy Fuel Oil
Proposed by Badlamshade
of
The Kingdom of Corisus


International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards of Single Hull Tankers Transporting Heavy Fuel Oil



To prevent oil spills in all oceans of the world.


The Phaseout of Single Hull Tankers Transporting Heavy Fuel Oil

Article 1 §

Effective Immediately

Single hull tankers transporting heavy fuel oil are now required to meet a new set of deadlines for phaseout or conversion to double hulls to continue to transport heavy grades of oil . The phase out schedule is as follows in Article 1 § - Secion A, Section B, Section C and Section D.

Section A
All new ships 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above designed for the transportion of heavy grades of oil as cargo will be required to install double hulls and protectively located segregated ballast tanks effective immediately to transport heavy grades of oil.

Section B
Category 1 - oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above which are not equiped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks are prohibited from the transport of heavy grades of oil such as crude oil, fuel oils, bitumen and tar effective immediately and will be requiered to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil.

Section C
Category 2 - oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above which are equiped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks are allowed to continue the transport of heavy grades of oil such as crude oil, fuel oils, bitumen and tar until the 25 year from the ships delivery date and will be requiered to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil on such date.

Section D
Oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above entering protected marine environments will be requiered to have installed an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil in protected waters. Oil tankers of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above which are equiped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks but do not have an additional hull installed are prohibited from entering protected marine environments. An exemption to Section D is stated in Article 2 § Section C

Article 2 §
Exemption of the deadlines put forth in Article !§ and of its Section's for phaseout or conversion to double hulls to continue to transport heavy grades oils is are as follows in Section A and Section B, Section C and Section D.

Section A
Exemption 1: Warships, naval auxiliary ships and other government vessels are exempt from the phaseout.

Section B
Exemption 2: A tanker of 5,000 dead weight tonnage and above which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements which transport heavy grades of oil as cargo if the ship is engaged in voyages exclusively within an area under the flag state’s jurisdiction and will be subject to law of that Nation.

Section C
Exemption 3: When a the vessel is deemed to to be the closest vessel to a vessel in distress as mandated in HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #152 Maritime Safety Standards Act and must enter a protected marine environment to comply with the Maritime Safety Standards Act .

Article 3 §
Ensuring the safe and clean disassembling of ships member governments will have to take immediate steps to to ensure the creation of enough ship recycling capacity to absorb all the older single hull tankers taken out of service and maintain adequate ship recycling facilities at a worldwide level and promote research and development programs to improve environment and safety level in ship recycling operations.

Article 4 §
To ensure that conversion modifications from single hull tankers to double hulls tankers are carried out, a condition assessment requires enhanced and transparent verification of the reported structural condition of the ship and verification that the documentary and survey procedures have been properly carried out and completed. All oil tankers will be required to keep a log of incidents, maintenance and inspection on board the ship at all times dating back as far as one year and must also send a copy of the log to its company every time it reaches a port and the ships company must keep its copy for 7 years.

Section A
The country where a ship is registered [flag state] is responsible for certifying the ship’s compliance with International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards and is responsible for the collection of funds for the clean up of any spills from a ship flying under their flag regardless of where the spill has occurred.

Section B
The country that the ship visits can conduct its own examination to verify a ship’s compliance with International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards and can detain the ship if it finds significant noncompliance.

Section C
When incidents occur outside such country's jurisdiction or jurisdiction cannot be determined, the country refers cases to the vessels flag state.

Article 5 §
A fine will be issued for non compliance with the said International Maritime Pollution Prevention Standards opon failure of an examination in the jurisdiction that the vessel is visiting or may be refered to Article 4 § , Section C of this Resolution; for a fee of 5% of the gross value of the cargo for 1st offence, 15% of the gross value of the cargo for 2nd offence, 30% of the gross value of the cargo for 3rd offence, 45% of the gross value of the cargo for 4th offence and confiscation of the ship for recycling.

Article 6 §
Signatory Nation's are responsible for enacting domestic laws to implement this Resolution and effectively pledges to comply with this Resolution, Articles, Section's here in.

Oh ya if you start going crosseyed stop reading emidiatly!

Well ...
Your title is waaaay to long. You only get 30 characters
Your proposal looks too long. The limit is somewhere around 3500 characters
I'm extraordinarily bugged by the apparently interchangeable "section" and "secion"
What is your Category and Strength?
It looks like you've written your own category description line, "To prevent oil spills in all oceans of the world." It doesn't work like that. You get a game description, based on the category you chose.
While this is an excellent thing to propose for the real world, the WA game mechanic doesn't have a good way to implement this. In this game, you must first choose the category and write your proposal to fit the description. Trying to shoehorn it in afterwards almost never works.

Well ...
Your title is waaaay to long. You only get 30 characters
Your proposal looks too long. The limit is somewhere around 3500 characters
I'm extraordinarily bugged by the apparently interchangeable "section" and "secion"
What is your Category and Strength?
It looks like you've written your own category description line, "To prevent oil spills in all oceans of the world." It doesn't work like that. You get a game description, based on the category you chose.
While this is an excellent thing to propose for the real world, the WA game mechanic doesn't have a good way to implement this. In this game, you must first choose the category and write your proposal to fit the description. Trying to shoehorn it in afterwards almost never works.



Ya I know it is Im trying to figure out what to do with it didnt want to use the same name as Resolution #11 "Ban Single-Hulled Tankers".
I can trim alot of this I was trying to make it well rounded my biggest basis was on the reapeal becuase it made all the fine points of what need to be done for this particular resolution
"section" and "secion" is just a typo
Strength- strong
Category- Environmental "A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry."
Industry Affected: All Businesses
I thought by writing a paragraph that shows how this supports the description was pointless blathering.



Any Ideas of what I should cut out!

Ban Single-Hulled Tankers
Category: Environmental
Strength: strong
Proposed by: Corisus


Article 1 §
Effective Immediately

Section A
All new ships 5,000 dead weight tonnage (dwt) and above designed for the transportion of heavy grades of oil as cargo will be required to install double hulls and protectively located segregated ballast tanks effective immediately to transport heavy grades of oil.

Section B
Oil tankers of 5,000 dwt and above which are not equiped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks are prohibited from the transport of heavy grades of oil effective immediately and will be requiered to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil.

Section C
Oil tankers of 5,000 dwt and above which are equiped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks are allowed to continue the transport of heavy grades of oil until the 25 year from the ships delivery date and will be requiered to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil on such date.

Article 2 §
Exemption of the deadlines put forth in Article !§ and of its Section's for phaseout or conversion to double hulls is as follows.

Section A
Warships, naval auxiliary ships and other government vessels.

Section B
A tanker of 5,000 dwt and above which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements which transport heavy grades of oil as cargo if the ship is engaged in voyages exclusively within an area under the flag state’s jurisdiction and will be subject to domestic law.

Article 3 §
Ensuring the safe and clean disassembling of ships member governments will have to take immediate steps to to ensure the creation of enough ship recycling capacity to absorb all the older single hull tankers taken out of service and maintain adequate ship recycling facilities at a worldwide level and promote research and development programs to improve environment and safety level in ship recycling operations.

Article 4 §
To ensure that conversion modifications from single hull tankers to double hull tankers are carried out, a log of the reported structural condition of the ship and verification that the documentary and survey procedures have been properly carried out and completed. All oil tankers will be required to keep a log of incidents, maintenance and inspection on board the ship at all times dating back as far as 1 year and must also give a copy of the log to its company and must kept for 7 years.

Section A
The Nation where a ship is registered [flag state] is responsible for certifying the ship’s compliance and is responsible for the collection of funds for the clean up of any spills from a ship flying under their flag regardless of where the spill has occurred.

Section B
The Nation that the ship visits can conduct its own examination to verify a ship’s compliance and can detain the ship if it finds significant noncompliance.

Section C
When incidents occur outside a Nation's jurisdiction or jurisdiction cannot be determined, the Nation refers cases to the vessels flag state.

Article 5 §
A fine will be issued in the jurisdiction that the vessel is Inspected at for failure of an examination for a fee to be determind by domestic laws of the Nation of insepection.

Article 6 §
Signatory Nation's are responsible for enacting domestic laws to implement this Resolution and effectively pledges to comply with this Resolution.



This is 3480 characters

The Environmental category doesn't have strength, it has Area of Effect.

We will ignore for now the multitudinous typographical errors in the draft. Given how close it is to the word limit, though, we suspect that the author would derive some benefit from a detailed proof-reading sooner rather than later.

Article 2 §
Exemption of the deadlines put forth in Article !§ and of its Section's for phaseout or conversion to double hulls is as follows.

Section A
Warships, naval auxiliary ships and other government vessels.

Section B
A tanker of 5,000 dwt and above which do comply with the protectively located segregated ballast tank requirements which transport heavy grades of oil as cargo if the ship is engaged in voyages exclusively within an area under the flag state’s jurisdiction and will be subject to domestic law.
We are struggling to think of a reason why either of these classes of vessel should be exempt. Would the honoured ambassador care to share his reasoning?

Article 6 §
Signatory Nation's are responsible for enacting domestic laws to implement this Resolution and effectively pledges to comply with this Resolution.
This clause makes little sense in the context of the World Assembly. "Signatory Nations" is a meaningless phrase, member nations are required by the articles of membership to enact domestic laws to implement any resolution, and compliance is also mandatory. Given the proximity of the world limit, we strongly suggest that the ambassador drops it.

Ban Single-Hulled Tankers
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Corisus

Article 1 §
Effective immediately Single hull tankers transporting heavy fuel oil are now required to phaseout or convert to double hull.

Section A
All new ships 5,000 dead weight tonnage (dwt) and above designed for the transportion of heavy grades of oil as cargo will be required to install double hull and protectively located segregated ballast tanks effective immediately to transport heavy grades of oil.

Section B
Oil tankers of 5,000 dwt and above which are not equipped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks are prohibited from the transport of heavy grades of oil effective immediately and will be required to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil.

Section C
Oil tankers of 5,000 dwt and above which are equipped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks are allowed to continue the transport of heavy grades of oil until the 25 year from the ships delivery date and will be required to add an additional hull to continue to transport heavy grades of oil on such date.


Article 2 §
Ensuring the safe and clean disassembling of ships member governments will have to take immediate steps to ensure the creation of enough ship recycling capacity to absorb all the older single hull tankers taken out of service and maintain adequate ship recycling facilities at a worldwide level and promote research and development programs to improve environment and safety level in ship recycling operations.

Article 3 §
To ensure that conversion modifications from single hull tankers to double hull tankers are carried out, a log of the reported structural condition of the ship and verification that the documentary and survey procedures have been properly carried out and completed. All oil tankers will be required to keep a log of incidents, maintenance and inspection on board the ship at all times dating back as far as 1 year and must also give a copy of the log to its company and must kept for 7 years.

Section A
The Nation where a ship is registered [flag state] is responsible for certifying the ships compliance and is responsible for the collection of funds for the clean up of any spills from a ship flying under their flag regardless of where the spill has occurred.

Section B
The Nation that the ship visits can conduct its own examination to verify a ships compliance and can detain the ship if it finds significant noncompliance.

Section C
When incidents occur outside a Nation's jurisdiction or jurisdiction cannot be determined, the Nation refers cases to the vessels flag state.

Article 4 §
A fine will be issued in the jurisdiction that the vessel is Inspected at for failure of an examination for a fee to be determined by domestic laws of the Nation of inspection.


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"We are struggling to think of a reason why either of these classes of vessel should be exempt. Would the honoured ambassador care to share his reasoning?"

It is not my intention to burden governments that are not in the financial position to scrap or convert any of their ships. Secondly to soften the blow on industry but it would still be a matter of that nation's domestic laws. Any ship moving to a domestic market will be replaced with a double hull ship as soon as they're decommissioned which may take up to 25 years or more. If someone else wants it I'll put it back if not its deleted!!!