LEG 101 & Meeting

Posted: 08/04/2014

By: Thomas Liebert

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you to those who responded to my email message.

As you may know, there are now three documents submitted under agenda item #3 at the upcoming Legal Committee meeting. One of these documents is sponsored by Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway (see here). It provides an update to the Legal Committee on the activities that have taken place since its last meeting, namely the holding of the informal meeting last October, the constitution of this informal correspondence group and the creation of the HNS Blog. More importantly, the document proposes to formalize the Correspondence Group with draft terms of reference. It should be noted that these terms of reference are based on those of the former Correspondence Group struck up in 1999. I invite you to consider the proposal made in the paper, which I have attached to this email message. The Legal Committee will also be invited to elect a Coordinator for the Correspondence Group.

Finally, given this proposal before the Legal Committee, it would be important to take advantage of the fact that many of us will be in London that week. Thus, after consulting the IMO Secretariat, the Correspondence Group will meet on Thursday, May 1 at 2:00pm. The location of the meeting will be announced earlier in the week of the Legal Committee. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the future activities of the Correspondence Group and an action plan with short, medium and longer term objectives. An agenda will be prepared and distributed prior to the meeting and please contact me should you have any suggestions to be added to the agenda.

Looking forward to meeting many of you in London.

Regards,

François