Pollution Probe in the Global Village

Although not the first international organization to be involved in maritime affairs, the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (imco), a United Nations specialized agency located in London, is the first global organization to centralize within one body all the various aspects of the shipping industry, including its personnel. The structure of imco was set down as follows: 'The Organization shall consist of an Assembly, a Council, a Maritime Safety Committee, and such subsidiary organs as the Organization may at any time consider necessary; and a Secretariat/1 These bodies follow the 'conciliar' pattern, but with the addition of a Maritime Safety Committee (msc). In a conciliar pattern, the assembly is the final authority; the council is elected by the assembly from its own membership to supervise the dayto-day operations of the organization; the secretariat administers the affairs of the organization. The addition of the msc, another body elected by the Assembly from its own membership, to this general pattern means that, in imco, the msc deals with the technical matters of the organization and the Council with all other matters. (However, the msc must still report to the Assembly through the Council and is thus considered subordinate to the latter.) The imco Assembly, then, is the equivalent of the western parliament in that the member-governments, representing diverse interests, meet there to discuss issues, set policy, and resolve prob

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  Open Access•Robert I Mclaren•Review of International Studies•1985

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