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 1 In view of the need to tackle the long-standing problem of the inadequacy of port reception facilities, the Marine Environment Protection Committee (the Committee), having received valuable input from the Industry Port Reception Facilities Forum, adopted, at its fifty-fifth session (October 2006), the Action Plan on Tackling the Inadequacy of Port Reception Facilities and instructed the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation (FSI) to progress the Plan's work items.

 2 The Guide to good practice for port reception facility providers and users was developed as one of the work items of the Action Plan as a practical users' guide for ships' crew who seek to deliver MARPOL wastes/residues ashore and for port reception facility providers who seek to provide timely and efficient port reception services to ships.

 3 The Committee, at its fifty-ninth session (July 2009), considered and approved the Guide to good practice for port reception facility providers and users (MEPC.1/Circ.671).

 4 The Committee, at its sixty-fifth session (May 2013), agreed to the recommendation made by the FSI Sub-Committee, at its twenty-first session (March 2013), to revise MEPC.1/Circ.671, including the necessary consequential amendments following the entry into force of the revised MARPOL Annex V on 1 January 2013; the designation of the Baltic Sea as a Special Area under MARPOL Annex IV; and the designation of the North American and United States Caribbean Sea emission control areas under MARPOL Annex VI.

 5 The Committee, at its sixty-sixth session (April 2014), approved the Consolidated guidance for port reception facility providers and users (MEPC.1/Circ.834), consolidating in a single document the Guide to good practice for port reception facility providers and users (MEPC.1/Circ.671/Rev.1) and four other circulars related to port reception facilities (MEPC.1/Circ.469/Rev.2, MEPC.1/Circ.644/Rev.1, MEPC.1/Circ.645/Rev.1 and MEPC.1/Circ.470/Rev.1).

 6 The Committee, at its seventieth session (November 2016), having adopted, by resolution MEPC.277(70), amendments to MARPOL Annex V introducing new categorizations of garbage, agreed to revise the Consolidated Guidance, and requested the Secretariat to issue the revision following the entry into force of the amendments on 1 March 2018. The revised Consolidated Guidance is set out in the annex.

 7 Member Governments and Parties to the MARPOL Convention are invited to bring the revised Consolidated Guidance to the attention of all parties concerned. In particular, port States are invited to make it available at port reception facilities and flag States are invited to make it available to shipowners and masters. An electronic copy can be downloaded from the GISIS website of the Organizationfootnote.

Parent topic: MEPC.1/Circular.834/Rev.1 - Consolidated Guidance for Port Reception Facility Providers and Users (1 March 2018)
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