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 from ships,

RECALLING ALSO that the International Conference on the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships held in May 2009 adopted the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (the Hong Kong Convention) together with six Conference resolutions,

NOTING that regulations 5.1 and 5.2 of the annex to the Hong Kong Convention require that ships shall have on board an Inventory of Hazardous Materials which shall be prepared and verified taking into account guidelines, including any threshold values and exemptions contained in those guidelines, developed by the Organization,

NOTING ALSO resolution MEPC.197(62) by which it adopted Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials (the guidelines) and resolved to keep them under review,

RECOGNIZING the need to improve the guidance on threshold values and exemptions, as contained in the aforementioned guidelines,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-eighth session, the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response, at its second session,

1 ADOPTS the 2015 Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials as set out in the annex to this resolution;

2INVITES Member Governments to apply the 2015 Guidelines as soon as possible, or latest when the Convention enters into force;

3 AGREES to keep the 2015 Guidelines under review in the light of experience gained with their application;

4 SUPERSEDES the guidelines adopted by resolution MEPC.197(62).

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.269(68) – 2015 Guidelines for the Development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials
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