<div data-bbox="127 128 191 149" data-label="Text"><p>from ships,</p></div><div data-bbox="127 167 490 269" data-label="Text"><p>RECALLING Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development which calls for the application of a precautionary approach,</p></div><div data-bbox="127 286 490 428" data-label="Text"><p>CONSIDERING that this objective could best be achieved by the conclusion of a Protocol of 1997 to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto,</p></div><div data-bbox="147 445 300 467" data-label="Text"><p>HAVE AGREED as follows:</p></div><div data-bbox="279 486 334 507" data-label="Section-Header"><h4>Article 1</h4></div><div data-bbox="229 526 384 547" data-label="Section-Header"><h5>Instrument to be amended</h5></div><div data-bbox="127 565 490 707" data-label="Text"><p>The instrument which the present Protocol amends is the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention").</p></div><div data-bbox="279 726 334 746" data-label="Section-Header"><h4>Article 2</h4></div><div data-bbox="189 765 424 786" data-label="Section-Header"><h5>Addition of Annex VI to the Convention</h5></div><div data-bbox="127 803 489 867" data-label="Text"><p>Annex VI entitled Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present</p></div><div data-bbox="504 128 607 148" data-label="Text"><p>Protocol, is added.</p></div><div data-bbox="657 167 718 188" data-label="Section-Header"><h4>Article 3</h4></div><div data-bbox="627 207 748 229" data-label="Section-Header"><h5>General Obligations</h5></div><div data-bbox="504 247 876 427" data-label="List-Group"><ol><li>1 The Convention and the present Protocol shall, as between the Parties to the present Protocol, be read and interpreted together as one single instrument.</li><li>2 Every reference to the present Protocol constitutes at the same time a reference to the Annex hereto.</li></ol></div><div data-bbox="657 445 717 466" data-label="Section-Header"><h4>Article 4</h4></div><div data-bbox="620 485 755 506" data-label="Section-Header"><h5>Amendment procedure</h5></div><div data-bbox="504 524 876 665" data-label="Text"><p>In applying article 16 of the Convention to an amendment to Annex VI and its appendices, the reference to "a Party to the Convention" shall be deemed to mean the reference to a Party bound by that Annex.</p></div><div data-bbox="630 685 741 705" data-label="Section-Header"><h4>FINAL CLAUSES</h4></div><div data-bbox="657 725 717 745" data-label="Section-Header"><h4>Article 5</h4></div><div data-bbox="518 764 859 786" data-label="Section-Header"><h5>Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession</h5></div><div data-bbox="504 803 876 866" data-label="List-Group"><ol><li>1 The present Protocol shall be open for signature at the Headquarters of the International Maritime Organization</li></ol></div><div data-bbox="883 167 902 250" data-label="Page-Footer"><p>제16297호</p></div><div data-bbox="883 432 902 454" data-label="Page-Footer"><p>판</p></div><div data-bbox="883 544 902 564" data-label="Page-Footer"><p>부</p></div><div data-bbox="883 676 902 831" data-label="Page-Footer"><p>2006. 7.18. (최4.0판)</p></div><div data-bbox="101 486 117 507" data-label="Page-Footer"><p>32</p></div>