The IMO has prepared numerous international conventions concerning maritime safety including the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ), the Standards for Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping ( STCW ), the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea ( Collision Regulations or COLREGS ), Maritime Pollution Regulations ( MARPOL ), International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Convention ( IAMSAR ) and others.

The product of such hydrography is most often seen on nautical charts published by the national agencies and required by the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) and national regulations to be carried on vessels for safety purposes.

The International Ship and Port Facility Security ( ISPS ) Code is an amendment to the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) Convention ( 1974 / 1988 ) on minimum security arrangements for ships, ports and government agencies.

The ISPS Code is implemented through chapter XI-2 Special measures to enhance maritime security in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ).

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) mandated certain classes of vessels must carry NAVTEX, beginning August 1, 1993.

The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study or Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study ( SOLAS ) is an international scientific research initiative that is one of the core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

The project is administered by a panel of scientific experts in the Scientific Steering Committee, and project coordination is handled by the SOLAS International Project Office at the University of East Anglia in Norwich UK.

SOLAS runs a successful biennial International Summer School, held at the Institut d ' Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse in Corsica France, and the next Summer School is scheduled for 2007.

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) is an international maritime safety treaty.

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ), 1974, requires flag States to ensure that their ships comply with minimum safety standards in construction, equipment and operation.

* International Life-Saving Appliance ( LSA ) Code – under the auspices of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) of 1 November 1974, ( London, 4 June 1996 )

VTS is governed by SOLAS Chapter V Regulation 12 together with the Guidelines for Vessel Traffic Services Resolution A. 857 ( 20 ) adopted by the International Maritime Organization on 27 November 1997.

The Convention did not deal with manning levels: IMO provisions in this area are covered by regulation 14 of Chapter V of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ), 1974, whose requirements are backed up by resolution A. 890 ( 21 ) Principles of safe manning, adopted by the IMO Assembly in 1999, which replaced an earlier resolution A. 481 ( XII ) adopted in 1981.

In 1988, IMO amended the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) Convention, requiring ships subject to it fit GMDSS equipment.

The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships.

Even though the Convention was updated and amended numerous times, the Convention in force today is sometimes referred to as SOLAS, 1974.

This system will be based on a considerably expanded control system as stipulated in the 1974 Convention for Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ).

For this reason, double bottoms have been required in all passenger ships for decades as part of the Safety Of Life At Sea or SOLAS Convention.

Double hulls or double bottoms have been required in all passenger ships for decades as part of the Safety Of Life At Sea or SOLAS Convention.

The sheer dimensions of the Titanic disaster created sufficient public reaction on both sides of the Atlantic to prod reluctant governments into action, producing the first Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) convention in 1914.

The Code was agreed at a meeting of the 108 signatories to the SOLAS convention in London in December 2002.

SOLAS has three major focus areas: Biogeochemical interactions and feedbacks between ocean and atmosphere, Exchange processes at the air-sea interface and the role of transport and transformation in the atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers, and Air-sea flux of carbon dioxide and other long-lived radiatively active gases ( this last focus is developed jointly with the Integrated Marine and Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research project ; IMBER ).

In 1929, the Mercantile Marine Department, which was working directly under the Ministry of Shipping till the establishment of the Directorate General of Shipping at Mumbai in 1949, was established to implement the first SOLAS and Load Line conventions.

The General Operator ’ s Certificate is required on SOLAS vessels operating also outside GMDSS Sea Area A1, while a Restricted Operator ’ s Certificate is needed on SOLAS vessels operated solely within GMDSS Sea Area A1,

These include the SOLAS cable across the Irish Sea, and the TAT-11 and Gemini North transatlantic telephone cables.

When employed as life saving equipment, they should comply to the regulations set out by the SOLAS.

With the fire in 1965 near the Bahamas, stricter coast guard safety regulations in the form of the new international SOLAS program put and end to the three ship's long careers.

The United States has issued regulations to enact the provisions of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 and to align domestic regulations with the maritime security standards of SOLAS and the ISPS Code.

Of these, chapter five ( often called ' SOLAS V ') is the only one that applies to all vessels on the sea, including private yachts and small craft on local trips as well as to commercial vessels on international passages.

Many countries have turned these international requirements into national laws so that anybody on the sea who is in breach of SOLAS V requirements may find themselves subject to legal proceedings.

These automatic-activating EPIRBs, now required on SOLAS ships, commercial fishing vessels, and all passenger ships, are designed to transmit to alert rescue coordination centers via the satellite system from anywhere in the world.

Communications from SOLAS include a monthly e-bulletin, a biannual newsletter, and a website.

2002 changes to SOLAS requires ships transiting the region guarded by the Ice Patrol to use the services provides during the ice season.

Highly reflective water resistant tape ( e. g. SOLAS tape ) may be affixed to the paddle blades and boat to enhance visibility.

The first SOLAS treaty was designed to avoid such a disaster happening again.

SOLAS now requires that Inmarsat C equipment have an integral satellite navigation receiver, or be externally connected to a satellite navigation receiver.

SOLAS has a goal to achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere, and of how this coupled system affects and is affected by climate and environmental change.

Scientific research is conducted by nations across the globe, and SOLAS has 23 established National Networks.

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

* " Toxic Trade: International Knowledge Networks & the Development of the Basel Convention ," Jason Lloyd, International Public Policy Review, UCL link.

* Introductory note to the Basel Convention by Dr. Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention, UNEP on the website of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (), is an international standards organisation, one of three such organisations established to maintain the International System of Units ( SI ) under the terms of the Metre Convention ( Convention du Mètre ).

Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is the focal point for the International Year of Biodiversity.

* Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna

* Introductory note by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, procedural history note and audiovisual material on the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

CITES ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention ) is a multilateral treaty, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ).