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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,

 NOTING resolution MEPC.108(49) by which the Committee adopted the Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers,

 NOTING ALSO that the revised MARPOL Annex I was adopted by resolution MEPC.117(52) and entered into force on 1 January 2007,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-fifth session, proposed amendments to the Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases at its seventeenth session,

  • 1 ADOPTS the 2013 Amendments to the Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers, the text of which is set out in the annex to this resolution;

  • 2 RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the annexed amendments when approving oil discharge monitoring and control systems being installed under regulation 31 of MARPOL Annex I on oil tankers constructed on or after 1 January 2005.

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.240(65) – 2013 Amendments to the Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers (Resolution MEPC.108(49)) – (Adopted on 17 May 2013)
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