Muscat, 25 Nov (ONA) --- His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik today issued a Royal Decree No. 68/ 2021 endorses the Sultanate of Oman's joining the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, signed in London on 13 February 2004.

Article (1) endorses the Sultanate of Oman's joining the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments in accordance with the version attached to this decree.

Article (2) instructs the departments concerned to deposit the document of Oman’s joining the above-mentioned convention in accordance with its provisions.

Article (3) says that this decree shall be published in the Official Gazette and enforced from its date of issue.

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