The annex of this document has been consolidated into resolution MEPC.254(67)
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,
RECALLING ALSO that 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 5 (Surveys) of MARPOL Annex
VI, as amended, requires ships to which chapter 4 applies shall also be
subject to survey and certification taking into account guidelines developed by the
Organization,
NOTING FURTHER that it adopted, by resolution MEPC.214(63), the 2012 Guidelines on survey and
certification of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI), and, by resolution MEPC.234(65), the amendments thereto,
NOTING FURTHER that it adopted, by resolution MEPC.254(67), the 2014 Guidelines on survey and
certification of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI), and by resolution MEPC.261(68), amendments thereto,
RECOGNIZING that the aforementioned amendments to MARPOL Annex
VI require relevant guidelines for the smooth and uniform implementation
of the regulations,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-third session, proposed amendments to the 2014
Guidelines on survey and certification of the Energy Efficiency Design Index
(EEDI), as amended,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the 2014 Guidelines on survey and certification of the
Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI), as set out in the annex to the
present resolution;
2 INVITES Administrations to take the aforementioned amendments into account when
developing and enacting national laws which give force to and implement provisions
set forth in regulation 5 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
groups;
4 AGREES to keep these Guidelines, as amended, under review, in light of the
experience gained with their application.