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 Protocol of 1978 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-eighth session, proposed amendments to MARPOL Annex
I concerning watertight doors,
1 ADOPTS, in accordance with article 16(2)(d) of MARPOL, amendments to MARPOL Annex
I, 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 July 2023 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 per cent 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 January 2024 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 ALSO REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit copies of the present resolution and
its annex to Members of the Organization which are not Parties to MARPOL.