1.2 Applicability
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.108(49) - Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers - (Adopted on 18 July 2003)Amended by Resolution MEPC.240(65) - Annex - Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers - 1 Introduction - 1.2 Applicability

1.2 Applicability

  1.2.1 The Revised Guidelines and Specifications apply to equipment installed in oil tankers the keels of which are laid, or which are at a similar stage of construction, on or after 1 January 2005. The Guidelines and Specifications adopted under Resolutions A.393(X), A.496(XII), MEPC.13(19) and A.586(14) are not applicable to oil tankers to which these new Guidelines and Specifications apply.

  1.2.2 Equipment installed in other oil tankers the keels of which are laid, or are in a similar stage of construction, before 1 January 2005, should comply either with the requirements contained in the Guidelines and Specifications adopted under resolutions A.393(X), A.496(XII), MEPC.13(19) and A.586(14), as applicable, or with the requirements contained in these new Guidelines and Specifications.


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