RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention of the International
Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee,
NOTING resolution MEPC.52(32) by which the Committee adopted
new regulations 13F and 13G and related amendments to Annex
I of MARPOL 73/78,
NOTING FURTHER resolution MEPC.52(32) by which the Committee
agreed to develop, as a matter of urgency, guidelines for approval
of alternative structural or operational arrangements as called for
in regulation 13G(7),
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its thirty-sixth session, the guidelines
developed under regulations 13G(7) of
Annex I of MARPOL 73/78.
2. INVITES:
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Governments to give due consideration to the Guidelines,
set out in the Annex, when accepting structural or operational arrangements
for a tanker as an alternative to the requirements prescribed in paragraph
(4) of regulation 13G of
Annex I of MARPOL 73/78.