RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Marine Environment
Protection Committee (the Committee) conferred upon it by international
conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,
NOTING article 16 of
the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "1973 Convention") and
article VI of the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention
for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred
to as the "1978 Protocol") which together specify the amendment procedure
of the 1978 Protocol and confer upon the appropriate body of the Organization
the function of considering and adopting amendments to the 1973 Convention,
as modified by the 1978 Protocol (MARPOL 73/78),
NOTING ALSO that regulation
13G of Annex I of MARPOL 73/78 specifies that the Condition
Assessment Scheme, adopted by resolution
MEPC.94(46), may be amended provided such amendments shall
be adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with
the provisions of article 16 of
the 1973 Convention relating to amendment procedures applicable to
an appendix to an Annex,
RECALLING ALSO resolutions MEPC.99(48) and MEPC.112(50), by which
the Committee adopted amendments to the Condition Assessment Scheme,
in accordance with the provisions of article
16 of the 1973 Convention relating to amendment procedures
applicable to an appendix to an Annex,
RECOGNIZING the need to amend the Condition Assessment Scheme
for the purpose of bringing its cross-references to MARPOL Annex I regulations in line with the new
numbering system in the revised Annex I once
it has entered into force,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its fifty-third session, the proposed
amendments to the Condition Assessment Scheme,
1. ADOPTS, in accordance with article 16(2)(d) of the 1973 Convention,
the amendments to the Condition Assessment Scheme, the text of which
is set out at Annex to the present
resolution;
2. DETERMINES, in accordance with article 16(2)(f)(iii) of the 1973 Convention,
that the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 July
2006, unless, prior to that date, not less than one third of the Parties
to MARPOL 73/78 or Parties the combined
merchant fleets of which constitute not less than 50 per cent of the
gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet, have notified to the
Organization their objections to the amendments;
3. INVITES Parties to MARPOL
73/78 to note that, in accordance with article 16(2)(g)(ii) of the 1973 Convention,
the said amendments shall enter into force on 1 January 2007 upon
their acceptance in accordance with paragraph 2 above;
4. REQUESTS the Secretary-General, in conformity
with article 16(2)(e) of the
1973 Convention, to transmit to all Parties to MARPOL 73/78 certified
copies of the present resolution and the text of the amendments contained
in the Annex;
5. REQUESTS FURTHER the Secretary-General to transmit
copies of this resolution and its Annex to
Members of the Organization which are not Parties to MARPOL
73/78;
6. INVITES the Maritime Safety Committee to note
the amendments to the Condition Assessment Scheme and take action
as appropriate in the review of the Guidelines on the Enhanced Programme
of Inspections during Surveys of Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers adopted
by resolution A.744(18), as amended.