For the purpose of this Convention, unless expressly provided
otherwise:
1 "Administration" means the Government of the
State under whose authority the ship is operating. With respect to
a ship entitled to fly a flag of any State, the Administration is
the Government of that State. With respect to floating platforms engaged
in exploration and exploitation of the sea-bed and subsoil thereof
adjacent to the coast over which the coastal State exercises sovereign
rights for the purposes of exploration and exploitation of its natural
resources, including Floating Storage Units (FSUs) and Floating Production
Storage and Offloading Units (FPSOs), the Administration is the Government
of the coastal State concerned.
2 "Ballast Water" means water with its suspended
matter taken on board a ship to control trim, list, draught, stability
or stresses of the ship.
3 "Ballast Water Management" means mechanical,
physical, chemical, and biological processes, either singularly or
in combination, to remove, render harmless, or avoid the uptake or
discharge of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens within Ballast
Water and Sediments.
4 "Certificate" means the International Ballast
Water Management Certificate.
5 "Committee" means the Marine Environment Protection
Committee of the Organization.
6 "Convention" means the International Convention
for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments.
7 "Gross tonnage" means the gross tonnage calculated
in accordance with the tonnage measurement regulations contained in Annex I to the International Convention on Tonnage
Measurement of Ships, 1969 or any successor Convention.
8 "Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens" means
aquatic organisms or pathogens which, if introduced into the sea including
estuaries, or into fresh water courses, may create hazards to the
environment, human health, property or resources, impair biological
diversity or interfere with other legitimate uses of such areas.
9 "Organization" means the International Maritime
Organization.
10 "Secretary-General" means the Secretary-General
of the Organization.
11 "Sediments" means matter settled out of Ballast
Water within a ship.
12 "Ship" means a vessel of any type whatsoever
operating in the aquatic environment and includes submersibles, floating
craft, floating platforms, FSUs and FPSOs.