1 The IMO Assembly adopted the Revised Specifications
for the Design, Operation and Control of Crude Oil Washing Systems
by resolution A.446 (XI) and the agreed interpretations for the Revised
COW Specifications are contained in Appendix III of the Revised COW
Specifications.
2 Upon the recommendation of the thirty-seventh
session of the Sub-Committee on Design and Equipment (DE 37), the
thirty-sixth session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee
approved the proposed new interpretation of paragraph 4.1.6 of the
Revised COW Specifications, as agreed by DE 37, and instructed the
Secretariat to issue it as MEPC/Circular.286 (MEPC
36/22, paragraph 7.2). The agreed interpretation is therefore set
out at annex to this circular.