This document has been revoked by resolution MEPC.357(78)
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 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,
RECALLING FURTHER that Article 11 of
the AFS Convention prescribes that ships to which this Convention
applies may, in any port, shipyard, or offshore terminal of a Party,
be inspected by officers authorized by that Party for the purpose
of determining whether the ship is in compliance with this Convention,
NOTING that Article 3(3) of
the AFS Convention prescribes that Parties to this Convention shall
apply the requirements of this Convention as may be necessary to ensure
that no more favourable treatment is given to ships of non-Parties
to this Convention,
NOTING ALSO resolution MEPC.105(49) by
which the Committee adopted the Guidelines for inspection of anti-fouling
systems on ship on 18 July 2003,
NOTING FURTHER that by resolution
MEPC.105(49), the Committee resolved to keep the 2003 Guidelines
under review in the light of experience gained,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-second session, the draft
2011 Guidelines for inspection of anti-fouling systems on ships developed
by the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation at its nineteenth
session,
1. ADOPTS the 2011 Guidelines for inspection of
anti- fouling systems on ships, as set out in the annex to this resolution;
2. INVITES Governments to apply the 2011 Guidelines
when exercising port State control inspections;
3. RECOMMENDS that the 2011 Guidelines be adopted
as amendments to resolution A.787(19) on
Procedures for port State control, as amended;
4. AGREES to keep the 2011 Guidelines under review
in the light of experience gained; and