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  1 The Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its forty-ninth session (14 to 18 July 2003) and the Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-eighth session (12 to 21 May 2004) agreed that products lacking essential data will not be included in the amendments to the IBC Code, adopted by MEPC.119(52) and MSC.176(79), which are expected to enter into force on 1 January 2007.

  2 The essential data needed to assign Pollution Category and Ship Type based on the revised GESAMP Hazard Profile are A1 (aquatic bioaccumulation), B1 (acute aquatic toxicity), E2 (physical effects on wildlife and benthic habitats), C1 (mammalian acute oral toxicity), C2 (mammalian acute dermal toxicity) and C3 (mammalian acute inhalation toxicity). Information on A2 (aquatic biodegradation), B2 (chronic aquatic toxicity) and D3 (long-term human health effects) would also greatly assist the process.

  3 The Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its fifty-second session (11 to 15 October 2004) and the Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-ninth session (1 to 10 December 2004), agreed to jointly circulate the list of products with missing data, as contained in the annex to this circular, to give industry the opportunity to provide missing data to the GESAMP/EHS Working Group for evaluation and to allow for subsequent inclusion of the products in List 1 of the MEPC.2 Circular prior to the entry into force of the revised IBC Code.

  4 In order to allow sufficient time for evaluation by the GESAMP/EHS Working Group and, where necessary, discussion by the BLG Sub-Committee and/or ESPH Working Group, the data should be sent to the Secretariat of the GESAMP/EHS Working Groupfootnote by 31 December 2005 at the latest.

  5 Information on the "Revised GESAMP Hazard Evaluation Procedure for Chemical Substances Carried by Ships" can be found in GESAMP Reports and Studies No. 64 (http://gesamp.imo.org/publicat.htm).

  6 Member Governments and NGOs are urged to bring this circular and in particular the attached annex to the attention of the chemical industry and other parties concerned.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.1128 – List of Products that have been Omitted from Either Chapter 17 or 18 of the IBC Code due to Missing Safety Data, Pollution Data or Both – (13 December 2004)
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