mindful of the importance of precautionary measures and prevention in avoiding oil pollution in the first instance, and the need for strict application of existing international instruments dealing with maritime safety and marine pollution prevention, particularly in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended, and also the speedy development of enhanced standards for the design, operation and maintenance of ships carrying oil, and offshore units,
so pozorne na pomen varnostnih ukrepov in preprečevanja onesnaženja z olji na prvi stopnji in potrebe po dosledni uporabi obstoječih mednarodnih dokumentov, ki obravnavajo varnost na morju in preprečevanje onesnaženja morja, zlasti Mednarodne konvencije o varstvu človeškega življenja na morju, 1974, spremenjene, in Mednarodne konvencije o preprečevanju onesnaževanja morja z ladij, 1973, dopolnjene s Protokolom 1978, kot sta bila spremenjena, in tudi na hiter razvoj višjih standardov načrtovanja, delovanja in vzdrževanja ladij, ki prevažajo olja, in priobalnih naprav,