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 (the
Committee) conferred upon it by international conventions for the prevention and
control of marine pollution from ships,
NOTING resolution MEPC.297(72), by which it adopted amendments to regulation B-3 of the
International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and
Sediments, 2004 (the BWM Convention),
NOTING ALSO that paragraph 10 of regulation B-3 of the BWM
Convention, as amended, states that the Committee shall determine the
renewal survey to which paragraphs 1.1,1.2, 2 and 4 of regulation B-3 of the BWM
Convention shall apply,
DETERMINES that the renewal survey referred to in paragraph 10 of regulation B-3 of
the BWM
Convention is the renewal survey for the ship associated with the
International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate pursuant to Annex I of the
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as
modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL).