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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.233(65) – 2013 Guidelines for Calculation of Reference Lines for Use with the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for Cruise Passenger Ships Having Non-Conventional Propulsion – (Adopted on 17 May 2013) - The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

 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.


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