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The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

 The annex of this document has been consolidated into Ballast Water Management Convention

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 from ships,

NOTING article 19 of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (the BWM Convention), which specifies the amendment procedure and confers upon the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the Organization the function of considering amendments thereto for adoption by the Parties,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-second session, proposed amendments to regulation B-3 of the BWM Convention concerning the implementation schedule of ballast water management for ships,

RECALLING resolution MEPC.287(71), by which it resolved that the Parties should implement the amended regulation B-3 immediately after the entry into force of the BWM Convention, in lieu of the implementation schedule recommended in resolution A.1088(28) on the application of the BWM Convention and notwithstanding the schedule set forth in regulation B-3, with a view to avoiding the creation of a dual treaty regime during the time period between the entry into force of the BWM Convention and the entry into force of the amended regulation B-3,

1 ADOPTS, in accordance with article 19(2)(c) of the BWM Convention, amendments to regulation B-3, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2 DETERMINES, in accordance with article 19(2)(e)(ii) of the BWM Convention, that the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 13 April 2019 unless, prior to that date, more than one-third of the Parties have notified the Secretary-General that they object to the amendments;

3 INVITES the Parties to note that, in accordance with article 19(2)(f)(ii) of the BWM Convention, the said amendments shall enter into force on 13 October 2019 upon their acceptance in accordance with paragraph 2 above;

4 REQUESTS the Secretary-General, for the purposes of article 19(2)(d) of the BWM Convention, to transmit certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the amendments contained in the annex to all Parties to the BWM Convention;

5 REQUESTS ALSO the Secretary-General to transmit copies of the present resolution and its annex to Members of the Organization which are not Parties to the BWM Convention;

6 REQUESTS FURTHER the Secretary-General to prepare a consolidated certified text of the BWM Convention.

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.297(72) - Amendments to the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004. Amendments to regulation B-3 (Implementation schedule of ballast water management for ships) - (adopted on 13 April 2018)
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