This document has been revoked by resolution MEPC.350(78)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 international conventions for the prevention and control of marine
                        pollution from ships, 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     NOTING that it adopted, by resolution MEPC.328(76), the 2021 revised MARPOL Annex
                           VI, which is expected to enter into force on 1 November 2022 upon its deemed
                        acceptance on 1 May 2022, 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     NOTING IN PARTICULAR that the 2021 revised MARPOL Annex
                           VI contains amendments concerning mandatory goal-based technical and
                        operational measures to reduce carbon intensity of international shipping, 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     NOTING FURTHER that regulation 23 of MARPOL Annex VI requires that the
                        attained EEXI shall be calculated taking into account the guidelines developed by the
                        Organization, 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     RECOGNIZING that the aforementioned amendments to MARPOL Annex
                           VI require relevant guidelines for uniform and effective implementation of
                        the regulations and to provide sufficient lead time for industry to prepare, 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-sixth session, draft 2021 Guidelines on
                           the method of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index
                           (EEXI), 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     1 ADOPTS the 2021 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained
                           Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI), as set out in the annex to the
                        present resolution; 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     2 INVITES Administrations to take the annexed Guidelines into account when
                        developing and enacting national laws which give force to and implement requirements set
                        forth in regulation 23 of MARPOL Annex VI; 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     3 REQUESTS the Parties to MARPOL Annex
                           VI and other Member Governments to bring the annexed Guidelines to the
                        attention of masters, seafarers, shipowners, ship operators and any other interested
                        parties; 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     4 AGREES to keep the Guidelines under review in light of experience gained
                        with their implementation and in light of the review of EEXI regulations to be completed
                        by the Organization by 1 January 2026 as identified in regulation 25.3 of MARPOL Annex
                        VI.