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,
NOTING that regulation 15(3)(a) of Annex I of the International
Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified
by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78), specifies
that oil tankers of 150 gross tonnage and above shall be fitted with
an oil discharge and monitoring control system approved by the Administration
and designed and installed in compliance with the Guidelines and Specifications
for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers adopted
by the Organization,
NOTING ALSO resolution A.586(14) entitled “Revised
Guidelines and Specifications for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control
Systems for Oil Tankers” developed in implementation of the
said regulation,
NOTING FURTHER regulation 14 of annex II of MARPOL 73/78
in respect of the carriage of category C and D oil-like substances
in oil tankers,
RECALLING that by resolution A.886(21) the Assembly resolved
that, in order to establish a uniform procedure, the function of adopting
or amending performance standards and technical specifications referred
to in the substantive text of MARPOL 73/78 and other IMO instruments,
shall be performed by the Marine Environment Protection Committee
and/or the Maritime Safety Committee, as appropriate,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its forty-ninth session, the recommendation
submitted by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment in light
of the requirements of Annex I of MARPOL 73/78,
1. ADOPTS the Revised Guidelines and Specifications
for Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control Systems for Oil Tankers,
the text of which is set out in the Annex to this resolution, for
application to oil tankers the keels of which are laid or which are
in a similar stage of construction (hereinafter referred to as “constructed”)
on or after 1 January 2005;
2. INVITES Governments to implement these Revised
Guidelines and Specifications when approving oil discharge monitoring
and control systems being installed under regulation 15(3)(a) of Annex
I of MARPOL 73/78 on oil tankers constructed on or after 1 January
2005.