RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Marine Environment
Protection Committee (the Committee) conferred upon it by international
conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,
RECALLING ALSO that, at its sixty-second session, the Committee
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 regulation 21 (required
EEDI) of MARPOL Annex VI, as amended, requires reference lines to
be established for each ship type to which regulation 21 is applicable,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-fifth session, the draft
2013 Guidelines for calculation of reference lines for use with the
Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for cruise passenger ships having
non-conventional propulsion for extension of the application of the
EEDI to these ship type,
1. ADOPTS the 2013 Guidelines for calculation
of reference lines for use with the Energy Efficiency Design Index
(EEDI) for cruise passenger ships having non-conventional propulsion,
as set out at annex to the present resolution; and
2. AGREES to keep these Guidelines under review
in light of the experience gained.