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The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

 RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee,

 NOTING that regulation 26 (now regulation 37) of Annex I and regulation 16 (now regulation 17) of Annex II of MARPOL 73/78 require ships to carry a shipboard oil pollution emergency plan, a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious liquid substances and/or a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan in accordance with the Guidelines developed by the Organization,

 RECOGNIZING the need for amending the Guidelines for the development of shipboard oil pollution emergency plans to ensure uniform application of these regulations,

 HAVING CONSIDERED at its thirty-second session proposals for the Guidelines for the development of shipboard oil pollution emergency plans and at its forty-fourth session further proposals for the Guidelines for the development of shipboard marine pollution emergency plans for oil and/or noxious liquid substances and the amendments to the Guidelines for the development of shipboard oil pollution emergency plans,

  1. ADOPTS the amendments to the Guidelines for the development of the shipboard oil pollution emergency plans, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  2. URGES Governments to ensure that the shipboard oil pollution emergency plans are developed in accordance with these Guidelines, as amended, when approving them under the provisions of amended regulation 26 (now regulation 37) of Annex I of MARPOL 73/78, pending its entry into force.

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.86(44) - Amendments to the Guidelines for the Development of Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plans - (Adopted on 13 March 2000)
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