RESOLUTION MEPC.228(65)

 

Adopted on 17 May 2013

 

INFORMATION REPORTING ON TYPE APPROVED BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

 

 

THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,

 

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 the international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,

 

RECALLING ALSO that the International Conference on Ballast Water Management for Ships held in February 2004 adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (the Ballast Water Management Convention) together with four Conference resolutions,

 

RECALLING FURTHER that, on entry into force, the Ballast Water Management Convention will require ships to install ballast water management systems, which meet the D-2 standard stipulated therein,

 

RECOGNIZING that the collection and dissemination of accurate information on type-approved ballast water management systems (BWMS) will be beneficial for all interested stakeholders,

 

NOTING resolution MEPC.175(58) by which the Committee adopted the Information reporting on type-approved ballast water management systems,

 

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases at its seventeenth session, on the need to revise resolution MEPC.175(58),

 

1.           INVITES Member States, when approving a ballast water management system in accordance with the Guidelines for approval of ballast water management systems (G8), to report the following information to the Organization:

.1 approval date;

.2 name of the Administration;

.3 name of the BWMS;

.4 a copy of the Type Approval Certificate and any appendices which includes details on all imposed limiting conditions on the operation of the BWMS in accordance with paragraph 6.1 of the Guidelines for approval of ballast water management systems (G8) (resolution MEPC.174(58)) as follows: Such limiting conditions to include any applicable environmental conditions (e.g. salinity, UV transmittance, temperature, etc.) and/or system