The Annex of this document has been consolidated into Resolution MEPC.308(73)
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 from ships,
RECALLING ALSO that, at its sixty-second session, it adopted, by resolution MEPC.203(62), 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 (inclusion of
regulations on energy efficiency for ships in MARPOL Annex
VI),
NOTING that the aforementioned amendments to MARPOL Annex
VI entered into force on 1 January 2013,
NOTING ALSO that regulation 22 (Attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (attained EEDI))
of MARPOL Annex VI, as amended, requires that the EEDI shall be calculated
taking into account the guidelines developed by the Organization,
NOTING FURTHER the 2012 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained Energy
Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships, adopted at its sixty-third session
by resolution MEPC.212(63), superseded by the 2014 Guidelines on the method
of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships
(resolution MEPC.245(66)), which were subsequently superseded by
the 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency
Design Index (EEDI) for new ships (resolution MEPC.308(73)),
NOTING that, at its seventy-fourth session, it adopted, by resolution MEPC.322(74), Amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on the method
of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new
ships,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-sixth session, proposed amendments to the 2018
Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency Design
Index (EEDI) for new ships (resolution MEPC.308(73), as amended by resolution MEPC.322(74)),
1 ADOPTS amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the
attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships (resolution MEPC.308(73), as amended by resolution MEPC.322(74)), as set out in the annex to the present
resolution;
2 INVITES Administrations to take into account the aforementioned amendments when
developing and enacting national laws which give force to, and implement provisions set
forth in regulation 20 of MARPOL Annex VI, as amended;
3 REQUESTS the Parties to MARPOL Annex
VI and other Member Governments to bring the amendments to the attention of
shipowners, ship operators, shipbuilders, ship designers and any other interested
parties;
4 AGREES to keep these Guidelines, as amended, under review, in light of experience
gained with their implementation.