title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION on negotiation by the European Economic Community for accession to the International Convention on Training and Certification of Mariners (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(78)249 final.
                                                    Brussels . 5 June 1978
                    RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
    on negotiation "by the European Economic Community for accession
          to the International Convention on Training and
                          Certification of Mariners
             ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
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COMC78) 249 final
 ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
      The Commission in its communication to the Council on
marine pollution from the transport of hydrocarbons ( COM(78)l8*f
final ) urged the need for joint action by the Member States
with respect to crew qualification in order to improve shipping
safety standards .
     IMCO is calling a conference in June with a view to
the conclusion of a Convention on the Training and Certification
of Mariners . Accession by the Community to this Convention is
clearly necessary to the attainment of its ( the Community 's )
objectives in the fields of the common transport policy , the
environment , vocational training and free movement of workers .
     The recommended Decision would authorize the Commission
to take part in the negotiations at the IMCO Conference on the
Training and Certification of Mariners with a view to the
Community 's acceding to the Convention being prepared .
 ---pagebreak---            RECOMMENDATION FOR COUNCIL DECISION
on negotiation "by the European Economic Community for accession
to the International Convention on Training and Certification of
Mariners
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
HAVING REGARD to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community,
HAVING REGARD to the recommendation from the Commission,
WHEREAS the European Council at its session in Copenhagen on •
7/8 April considered that the Community must make the prevention
and combating of marine pollution , particularly by hydrocarbons ,
a major objective , and called upon the Council , acting on a
proposal from the Commission , and upon the Member States to
take appropriate action within the Community without delay
and to adopt common attitudes in the relevant international
bodies with respect in particular to the framing and implementation
of effective ant i–pollution measures :
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WHEREAS the European Communities * action programmes on the environment
underscore the importance to the Community of action against marine
pollution in general , provide inter alia for Community operations
against pollution from transport and shipping, and specify that
protection of the sea in order to preserve vital ecological equilibria
is a priority task :
                                                               • • •/• • •
 OJ No 112 , 20.12.73 . p. 1 , and OJ No 139 , 13.6.77 , P - 1
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 WHEREAS Community aotion in this field must dovetail with the
 action by the specialized international organizations ;
 WHEREAS the International Convention on the Training and
 Certification of Mariners is calculated to do much to improve the
 safety of ships ;
WHEREAS     common rules on the training and certification of mariners
 are a necessary stage in facilitating the actual exercise of free
movement of mariners in the Community, and will serve to further
 the smooth development both of the national economies and of the
Common Market ;
WHEREAS accession by the Community to the Convention is necessary
to the attainment , in the operation of the Common Market , of the
Community 's objectives in the fields of the common transport policy,
the environment , vocational training and free movement of workers ,
and whereas the Community should therefore take part in these
negotiations ;
DECIDES ]
                                Sole Article
          The Commission is authorized to take part , within the
sphere of the Community's jurisdiction, in the negotiations at the
International Conference on the Training and Certification of '
Mariners, with a view to the Community's acceding to the Convention
there being prepared.
                                                        Done at
                                                        For the Council
                                                        The President