Revoked by MEPC.358(78)

 RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee conferred upon it by the international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,

 RECALLING ALSO that the International Conference on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems for Ships, 2001, held in October 2001, adopted the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships, 2001 (the AFS Convention) together with four Conference resolutions,

 NOTING that Article 10 of the AFS Convention prescribes that ships shall be surveyed and certified in accordance with the regulations of annex 4 of the Convention,

 NOTING ALSO that regulation 1(4)(a) of annex 4 of the AFS Convention refers to the guidelines to be developed by the Organization and Conference resolution 2 urges the Organization to develop these guidelines as a matter of urgency for them to be adopted before the entry into force of the Convention,

 NOTING FURTHER that, by resolution MEPC.102(48), it adopted on 11 October 2002 the Guidelines for Survey and Certification of Anti-fouling Systems on Ships,

 RECOGNIZING the need to revise the 2002 Guidelines,

 HAVING CONSIDERED a revised text of the Guidelines for Survey and Certification of Anti-fouling Systems on Ships prepared by the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation at its eighteenth session,

• .1 ADOPTS the 2010 Guidelines for Survey and Certification of Anti-fouling Systems on Ships, as set out in the Annex to this resolution;

• .2 INVITES Governments to apply the 2010 Guidelines;

• .3 RECOMMENDS that the Guidelines be reviewed on a regular basis; and

• .4 REVOKES resolution MEPC.102(48).