Acceptance by an Administration under regulation 5 of any fitting, material,
appliance, or apparatus as an alternative to that required by Annex I includes type approval of pollution
prevention equipment which is equivalent to that specified in resolution
A.393(X)footnote. An Administration that
allows such type approval shall communicate particulars thereof, including
the test results on which the approval of equivalency was based, to
the Organization in accordance with regulation
5.2.
With regard to the term “appropriate action, if any”
in regulation 5.2, any Party
to the Convention that has an objection to an equivalency submitted
by another Party should communicate this objection to the Organization
and to the Party which allowed the equivalency within one year after
the Organization circulates the equivalency to the Parties. The Party
objecting to the equivalency should specify whether the objection
pertains to ships entering its ports.