Interpretation of Paragraph 4.1.6 of the Revised COW Specifications
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Interpretation of Paragraph 4.1.6 of the Revised COW Specifications

  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.


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