The Marine Environment Protection Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.285(70) - Amendments to the Revised Guidelines and Specifications for Pollution Prevention Equipment for Machinery Space Bilges of Ships - (Adopted On 28 October 2016) - The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

The annex of this document has been consolidated into resolution MEPC.107(49)

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 the international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,

NOTING resolution MEPC.107(49) by which it adopted, at its forty-ninth session, the Revised Guidelines and Specifications for pollution prevention equipment for machinery space bilges of ships,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventieth session, proposed amendments to the above-mentioned Revised Guidelines and Specifications, concerning specifications related to 15 ppm bilge alarms,

1 ADOPTS amendments to the Revised Guidelines and specifications for pollution prevention equipment for machinery space bilges of ships, the text of which is set out in the annex to this resolution;

2 RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the annexed amendments when checking the accuracy of 15 ppm bilge alarms.


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