The Annex of this document has been consolidated into MARPOL Annex
VI
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 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,
RECALLING FURTHER that MEPC.1/Circ.882 had requested the Parties to apply the amendments
to appendix VI of MARPOL Annex
VI related to the verification procedure for a MARPOL Annex
VI fuel oil sample (regulation 18.8.2 or regulation 14.8) in advance of their
entry into force,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-fifth session, proposed amendments to MARPOL Annex
VI concerning procedures for sampling and verification of the sulphur content
of fuel oil and the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI), which were circulated in
accordance with article 16(2)(a) of MARPOL,
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 October 2021 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 April 2022 upon their acceptance in
accordance with paragraph 2 above;
4 INVITES ALSO the Parties to consider the early application of the annexed amendments;
5 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;
6 REQUESTS ALSO the Secretary-General to transmit copies of the present resolution and
its annex to Members of the Organization which are not Parties to MARPOL.