Resolution 2. (CONF. 1994)

 AMENDMENTS TO THE ANNEX OF THE PROTOCOL OF 1978 RELATING  TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, 1973.
(Amendments to Annex III on port Stale control on operational requirements)

(Adopted by Resolutions of the Conference of Parties
on 3 September 1994)

THE CONFERENCE,

RECALLING article 16(3) of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (hereinafter referred to as) concerning the procedure for amending MARPOL 73/78 by a Conference of Parties,

HAVING CONSIDERED amendments to Annex III of MARPOL 73/78 proposed and circulated to the Members of the Organization and all Parties to MARPOL 73/78,

1. ADOPTS, in accordance with article 16(3) of MARPOL 73/78, amendments to Annex III of MARPOL 73/78, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2. DETERMINES, in accordance with article 16(3)(c) of MARPOL 73/78, that the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 3 September 1995 unless prior to this date one third or more of the Parties, or the Parties the combined merchant fleets of which constitute fifty per cent or more of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet, have communicated to the Organization their objections to the amendments;

3. INVITES Parties to note that, in accordance with article 16(3)(c) of MARPOL 73/70, the amendments shall enter into force on 3 March 1996 upon its acceptance in accordance with paragraph 2 above.

ANNEX.
AMENDMENTS TO ANNEX III OF MARPOL 73/78

The following new regulation 8 is added to the existing regulations of Annex III: