The annex of this document has been consolidated into resolution MEPC.308(73)
RECALLING article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions 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 sixty-second session, it adopted, by resolution MEPC.203(62), Amendments to the annex of the Protocol of 1997
to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships,
1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (inclusion of
regulations on energy efficiency for ships in MARPOL
Annex VI),
NOTING that the aforementioned amendments to MARPOL
Annex VI entered into force on 1 January 2013,
NOTING ALSO that regulation 20 (Attained Energy Efficiency Design Index
(attained EEDI)) of MARPOL Annex VI, as amended, requires that the EEDI shall be
calculated taking into account the guidelines developed by the Organization,
NOTING FURTHER the 2012 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained Energy
Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships, adopted at its sixty-third session
by resolution MEPC.212(63), and the amendments thereto, adopted at its
sixty-fourth session by resolution MEPC.224(64),
NOTING FURTHER that, at its sixty-sixth session, it adopted, by resolution MEPC.245(66), 2014 Guidelines on the method of calculation of
the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships, and, at its
sixty-eighth session, by resolution MEPC.263(68), MEPC.281(70), amendments thereto,
NOTING FURTHER that, at its seventy-three, it adopted, by resolution MEPC.308(73), 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation of
the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships,
RECOGNIZING that the amendments to MARPOL
Annex VI require relevant guidelines for the smooth and uniform
implementation of the regulations,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-fourth session, proposed amendments to the 2018
Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency Design
Index (EEDI) for new ships, as amended
1 ADOPTS amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the
attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships, as amended, as set
out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Administrations to take the aforementioned amendments into account when
developing and enacting national laws which give force to and implement provisions set
forth in regulation 20 of MARPOL
Annex VI, as amended;
3 REQUESTS the Parties to MARPOL
Annex VI and other Member Governments to bring the amendments to the
attention of shipowners, ship operators, shipbuilders, ship designers and any other
interested parties;
4 AGREES to keep these Guidelines, as amended, under review, in the light of experience
gained with their implementation.