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 Marine Environment Protection Committee conferred upon it by international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,

RECALLING ALSO that the International Conference on the Control of Harmful Anti- fouling Systems for Ships, 2001, held in October 2001, adopted the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships, 2001 (the AFS Convention) together with four Conference resolutions,

RECALLING FURTHER that article 11(1) of the AFS Convention prescribes that ships to which this Convention applies may, in any port, shipyard, or offshore terminal of a Party, be inspected by officers authorized by that Party for the purpose of determining whether the ship is in compliance with this Convention,

NOTING that article 3(3) of the AFS Convention prescribes that Parties to this Convention shall apply the requirements of this Convention as may be necessary to ensure that no more favourable treatment is given to ships of non-Parties to this Convention,

NOTING ALSO resolution MEPC.208(62) by which the Committee adopted the 2011 Guidelines for Inspection of Anti-fouling Systems on Ships,

RECALLING FURTHER that at its seventy-sixth session it adopted amendments to the AFS Convention to introduce controls on cybutryne through resolution MEPC.331(76),

RECOGNIZING the need for a consequential revision of the guidelines associated with the AFS Convention due to the aforementioned amendments,

NOTING FURTHER that through resolutions MEPC.358(78) and MEPC.356(78) the Organization adopted 2022 Guidelines for survey and certification of anti-fouling systems on ships and 2022 Guidelines for brief sampling of anti-fouling systems on ships, respectively, and

HAVING CONSIDERED a revised text of the Guidelines for inspection of anti-fouling systems on ships prepared by the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response at its ninth session,

1 ADOPTS the 2022 Guidelines for inspection of anti-fouling systems on ships (2022 Guidelines), the text of which is set out in the annex to this resolution;

2 INVITES Governments to apply the 2022 Guidelines when exercising port State control inspections;

3 RECOMMENDS that the 2022 Guidelines incorporated in the future revision of resolution A.1155(32) on Procedures for port State control, 2021;

4 RECOMMENDS that the Guidelines be reviewed on a regular basis;

5 REVOKES resolution MEPC.208(62).

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.357(78) - 2022 Guidelines for Inspection of Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships - (adopted on 10 June 2022)
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