The Marine Environment Protection Committee,
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The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

 RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 NOTING resolution MEPC.107(49), adopted on 18 July 2003, by which the Marine Environment Protection Committee adopted, at its forty-ninth session, the current revised Guidelines and Specifications for Pollution Prevention Equipment for Machinery Space Bilges of Ships and invited Governments to adopt and apply them to the maximum possible extent which they found reasonable and practicable and to report to the Organization the results of such application,

 NOTING FURTHER the provisions of regulation 14.6 of Annex I of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL), in which reference is made to the above-mentioned revised Guidelines and Specifications,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-second session, the Guidelines and Specifications for add-on equipment for upgrading resolution MEPC.60(33)-compliant oil filtering equipment, developed by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment,

  1. ADOPTS the 2011 Guidelines and Specifications for add-on equipment for upgrading resolution MEPC.60(33)-compliant oil filtering equipment, the text of which is set out in the annex to this resolution;

  2. INVITES Governments to:

  • (a) consider the Guidelines and Specifications and encourage their application so that add-on equipment voluntarily installed on board ships to upgrade existing oil filtering equipment compliant with the provisions of the revised Guidelines and Specifications for Pollution Prevention Equipment for Machinery Space Bilges of Ships adopted by resolution MEPC.60(33) meets these Guidelines and Specifications for add-on equipment; and

  • (b) provide the Organization with information on experience gained from their application and, in particular, on successful testing of equipment against the Specifications;

  3. REQUESTS the Secretariat, on the basis of information received, to maintain and update a list of approved equipment and to make it available through the Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS);

  4. FURTHER INVITES Governments to issue an appropriate "Certificate of type approval" as referred to in paragraph 4.2.1 of the Specifications and to recognize such certificates issued under the authority of other Governments as having the same validity as certificates issued by them.

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.205(62) – 2011 Guidelines and Specifications for Add-On Equipment for Upgrading Resolution MEPC.60(33)–Compliant Oil Filtering Equipment – (Adopted on 15 July 2011)
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