The annex of this document has been consolidated into Resolution
MEPC.184(59)
RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization concerning the functions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee
(the Committee) conferred upon it by international conventions for the prevention
and control of marine pollution from ships,
RECALLING ALSO that, at its fifty-eighth session, the Committee adopted,
by resolution MEPC.176(58), a revised MARPOL Annex VI which significantly strengthens the emission limits
for sulphur oxides (SOX),
RECALLING FURTHER that, at its fifty-ninth session, the Committee
adopted, by resolution MEPC.184(59), the 2009 Guidelines for exhaust gas cleaning
systems (hereinafter referred to as "2009 EGCS Guidelines"),
NOTING that the revised MARPOL Annex VI, entered into force on 1 July 2010,
NOTING ALSO that regulation 4 of MARPOL Annex VI allows the use
of an alternative compliance method at least as effective in terms of emission
reductions as that required by MARPOL Annex VI, including any of the standards set forth in
regulation 14, taking into account guidelines developed by the Organization,
RECOGNIZING the need to update the 2009 EGCS Guidelines accordingly,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-eighth session, draft amendments to the
2009 EGCS Guidelines, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and
Response, at its second session,
1 ADOPTS the 2015 Guidelines for exhaust gas cleaning
systems, as set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Administrations to take these Guidelines into account
when allowing the use of an exhaust gas cleaning system in accordance with regulation 4 of MARPOL Annex VI;
3 REQUESTS Parties to MARPOL Annex VI, and other Member Governments to bring these
Guidelines to the attention of shipowners, ship operators, shipbuilders, marine
diesel engine manufacturers and any other interested groups;
4 INVITES Administrations to provide for collection of data as
described in appendix 3 of these Guidelines;
5 AGREES to keep these Guidelines under review in the light of
experience gained with their application;