4 Recommendations for Facilitating a Type Approval Evaluation
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4 Recommendations for Facilitating a Type Approval Evaluation

  4.1 For those Administrations using third party quality assurance organizations, due care should be taken to ensure all such arrangements are in place prior to initiating the type approval programme.

  4.2 The Administration should provide the applicant with a document outlining contact details, the expected amount of time between submission and decision and any other requirements separate from the procedures and requirements outlined in the instruments listed in section 2 of this Guidance.

 4.3 The Administration should verify that any recommendations made by MEPC during Basic and Final Approval have been addressed prior to issuing the Type Approval Certificate. In accordance with Information reporting on type-approved ballast water management systems (resolution MEPC.175(58)), the Administration should submit the final report of land-based and shipboard tests with the notification of type approval to the Organization. The reports should be available to Member States.

  4.4 The Administration may certify a range of the BWMS capacities employing the same principles and technology, but due consideration should be given to limitations on performance which might arise from scaling up or scaling down.

  4.5 The Administration should, in particular, review Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for which an international standard has yet not been established.

Parent topic: Annex – Guidance for Administrations on the Type Approval Process for Ballast Water Management Systems
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