3 Emergency or Epidemic Situation
Clasification Society 2024 - Version 9.40
Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.161(56) - Guidelines for Additional Measures Regarding Ballast Water Management Including Emergency Situations (G13) - (Adopted on 13 July 2007) - Annex - Guidelines for Additional Measures Regarding Ballast Water Management Including Emergency Situations (G13) - 3 Emergency or Epidemic Situation

3 Emergency or Epidemic Situation

  3.1 A Party or Parties may adopt an additional measure(s) to address an emergency or epidemic situation.

  3.2 If such a measure is adopted, a Party or Parties should, as soon as possible, notify adjacent and other States that may be affected, the shipping industry in general, and ships operating in the areas of concern. Such information should contain:

  • .1 the precise co-ordinates of the area;

  • .2 the need for such additional measure(s);

  • .3 a description of the additional measure(s);

  • .4 any arrangements that may be provided to facilitate ships' compliance with the additional measure(s); and

  • .5 the effective date when the measure(s) applies and when the measure(s) is no longer in effect.

  3.3 In an emergency or epidemic situation, the additional measure(s) adopted should be communicated to the Organization as soon as possible. The Organization shall post relevant information on its website and retain such information for dissemination to the Committee.


Copyright 2022 Clasifications Register Group Limited, International Maritime Organization, International Labour Organization or Maritime and Coastguard Agency. All rights reserved. Clasifications Register Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as 'Clasifications Register'. Clasifications Register assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Clasifications Register entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.