1 The Marine Environment Protection Committee,
at its sixty-second session (11 to 15 July 2011), approved the Guidelines
for a shipboard oily waste pollution prevention plan and agreed to
disseminate the Guidelines by means of an MEPC circular (MEPC 62/24,
paragraph 11.8).
2 Member Governments are invited to encourage
the use of the Guidelines, attached in the annex, by shipowners and
operators when drawing plans for oil waste prevention for ships flying
their flags and to bring the contents of the Guidelines to the attention
of all parties concerned.