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 the international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,
RECALLING ALSO that the International Conference on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling
Systems for Ships, 2001, held in October 2001, adopted the International Convention on
the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships, 2001 (the AFS
Convention) together with four Conference resolutions,
NOTING that article
10 of the AFS Convention prescribes that ships shall be surveyed and certified
in accordance with the regulations of annex 4
of the Convention,
NOTING ALSO that regulation 1(4)(a) of annex 4 of the AFS Convention refers to the guidelines
to be developed by the Organization,
NOTING FURTHER resolution MEPC.195(61) by which the Committee adopted the 2010
Guidelines for survey and certification of anti-fouling systems on ships,
RECALLING FURTHER that at its seventy-sixth session it adopted amendments to the AFS
Convention to introduce controls on cybutryne through resolution MEPC.331(76),
RECOGNIZING the need for a consequential revision of the guidelines associated with the
AFS Convention due to the aforementioned amendments,
NOTING FURTHER that through resolutions MEPC.356(78) and MEPC.357(78) the Organization adopted 2022 Guidelines for brief sampling
of anti-fouling systems on ships and 2022 Guidelines for inspection of
anti-fouling systems on ships, respectively, and
HAVING CONSIDERED a revised text of the Guidelines for survey and certification of
anti-fouling systems on ships prepared by the Sub-Committee on Pollution
Prevention and Response at its ninth session,
1 ADOPTS the 2022 Guidelines for survey and certification of anti-fouling systems on
ships (2022 Guidelines), the text of which is set out in the annex to this
resolution;
2 INVITES Governments to apply the 2022 Guidelines as soon as possible, or when the
Convention becomes applicable to them;
3 RECOMMENDS that the Guidelines be reviewed on a regular basis;
4 REVOKES resolution MEPC.195(61).