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Presidential Decree No. 600 on Marine Pollution of 1974.

Country/Territory
Philippines
Document type
Regulation
Date
1974
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., Sea
Keyword
Marine pollution Pollution control Environmental planning Offences/penalties Navigation Policy/planning
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, North Pacific, South-Eastern Asia
Entry into force notes
This Decree enters into force immediately.
Abstract

This Decree, consisting of eleven Sections, establishes the national policy to prevent and control the pollution of seas by the dumping of waste and other matter which create hazards to human health, harm living resources and marine life, damage amenities, or interfere with the legitimate uses of the sea within the territorial jurisdiction of the Philippines. It prohibits to throw, discharge, or deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure to be thrown, discharged, or deposited either from or out of any ship, barge, or other floating craft of any kind, or from the shore, wharf, manufacturing establishment, or mill of any kind, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of the Philippines, or into any tributary of any navigable water from which the same shall float or be washed into such navigable water; and it shall be unlawful to deposit, or cause, suffer or procure to be deposited material of any kind in any place on the bank of any navigable water or on the bank of any tributary of any navigable water, where the same shall be liable to be washed into such navigable water, either by ordinary or high tides, or by storms or floods, or otherwise, whereby navigation shall or may be impeded or obstructed or increase the level of pollution of such waters.

Full text
English
Website
www.coastguard.gov.ph

References - Legislation

Amended by

Marine Pollution Decree of 1976 (Presidential Decree No. 979).

Legislation | Philippines | 1976

Keyword: Marine pollution, Pollution control, Environmental planning, Offences/penalties, Policy/planning

Source: FAO, FAOLEX