RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Marine Environment
Protection Committee (the Committee) conferred upon it by international
conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution from
ships,
RECALLING ALSO that, at its fortieth session, the Committee
adopted, by resolution MEPC.76(40),
the Standard specification for shipboard incinerators,
in respect of regulation 16.6.1 and appendix IV to MARPOL Annex VI,
NOTING that, at its forty-fifth session, the Committee adopted,
by resolution MEPC.93(45), Amendments
to the standard specification for shipboard incinerators,
NOTING ALSO that, at its sixty-fourth session, the Committee
decided that incinerators with a capacity greater than 1,500 kW and
up to 4,000 kW can be type-approved under the existing standard specification
for shipboard incinerators,
BEING AWARE of the need to update the definition section,
as well as references to the SOLAS Convention and
IEC standards in the Standard specification for shipboard incinerators,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-sixth session, the 2014
Standard specification for shipboard incinerators,
1. ADOPTS the 2014 Standard specification
for shipboard incinerators, as set out in the annex to the
present resolution;
2. INVITES Administrations to take the annexed
Standard specification into account when certifying a shipboard incinerator;
3. INVITES Governments to note that, taking into
account regulation 16.5.2 of MARPOL Annex
VI, the standard specification for shipboard incinerators does
not apply to the design, installation and operation of alternative
designs of shipboard thermal waste treatment devices including those
which use thermal processes to convert ship generated wastes to gas;
4. REQUESTS the Parties to MARPOL Annex VI and other Member Governments to
bring the annexed standard specification to the attention of shipowners,
ship operators, shipbuilders, manufacturers of shipboard incinerators
and any other interested groups;