RESOLUTION MEPC.305(73)
(adopted on 26 October 2018)
AMENDMENTS TO THE ANNEX OF THE PROTOCOL OF 1997 TO AMEND THE
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, 1973, AS
MODIFIED BY THE PROTOCOL OF 1978 RELATING THERETO
Amendments to MARPOL Annex VI
(Prohibition
on the carriage of non-compliant fuel oil for combustion purposes for
propulsion or operation on board a ship)
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,
NOTING article 16 of the International Convention for the
Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocols of 1978
and 1997 relating thereto (MARPOL), which specifies the amendment procedure and
confers upon the appropriate body of the Organization the function of considering
amendments thereto for adoption by the Parties,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-third session, proposed
amendments to MARPOL Annex VI concerning the prohibition on the carriage of
non-compliant fuel oil for combustion purposes for propulsion or operation on
board a ship,
1 ADOPTS, in
accordance with article 16(2)(d) of MARPOL, amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, the
text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 DETERMINES, in
accordance with article 16(2)(f)(iii) of MARPOL, that the amendments shall be
deemed to have been accepted on 1 September 2019 unless, prior to that date,
not less than one third of the Parties or Parties the combined merchant fleets
of which constitute not less than 50% of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant
fleet, have communicated to the Organization their objection to the amendments;
3 INVITES the
Parties to note that, in accordance with article 16(2)(g)(ii) of MARPOL, the
said amendments shall enter into force on 1 March 2020 upon their acceptance in
accordance with paragraph 2 above;
4 REQUESTS the
Secretary-General, for the purposes of article 16(2)(e) of MARPOL, to transmit
certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the amendments
contained in the annex to all Parties to MARPOL;
5 REQUESTS FURTHER
the Secretary-General to transmit copies of the present resolution and its
annex to Members of the Organization which are not Parties to MARPOL.
AMENDMENTS TO MARPOL ANNEX VI
(Prohibition on the carriage of non-compliant fuel oil for
combustion purposes for propulsion or operation on board a ship)
ANNEX VI
REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF AIR POLLUTION FROM SHIPS
Regulation 14
Sulphur oxides (SOX) and particulate matter
General requirements
1 Paragraph 1 is replaced by the
following:
"1
The sulphur content of fuel oil used
or carried for use on board a ship shall not exceed 0.50% m/m."
Requirements within emission
control areas
2 Paragraph 3 is replaced by the
following:
"3
For the purpose of this regulation,
an emission control area shall be any sea area, including any port area,
designated by the Organization in accordance with the criteria and procedures
set forth in appendix III to this Annex. The emission control areas under this regulation
are:
.1 the Baltic Sea area as defined in
regulation 1.11.2 of Annex I of the present Convention;
.2 the North Sea area as defined in
regulation 1.14.6 of Annex V of the present Convention;
.3 the North American Emission Control Area,
which means the area described by the coordinates provided in appendix VII to
this Annex; and
.4 the United States Caribbean Sea Emission
Control Area, which means the area described by the coordinates provided in
appendix VII to this Annex."
3 Paragraph 4 is
replaced by the following:
"4
While a ship is operating within an
emission control area, the sulphur content of fuel oil used on board that ship
shall not exceed 0.10% m/m."
4 The subtitle
"Review provision" and paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 are deleted.
Appendix I