The Marine Environment Protection Committee,
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The Marine Environment Protection Committee,

The annex of this document has been consolidated into resolution MEPC.227(64)

RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (the Committee) conferred upon it by the international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,

NOTING resolution MEPC.227(64), by which it adopted the 2012 Guidelines on implementation of effluent standards and performance tests for sewage treatment plants (2012 Guidelines),

NOTING ALSO resolution MEPC.274(69), by which it adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex IV concerning the Baltic Sea Special Area and the Form of the International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate, which are expected to enter into force on 1 September 2017,

NOTING FURTHER resolution MEPC.275(69), by which it established the date on which the discharge requirements of regulation 11.3 of MARPOL Annex IV in respect of the Baltic Sea Special Area shall take effect,

RECOGNIZING the need to align the relevant provisions of the 2012 Guidelines with the above-mentioned amendments to MARPOL Annex IV and the effective date of the Baltic Sea Special Area,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventieth session, proposed amendments to the 2012 Guidelines,

1 ADOPTS amendments to the 2012 Guidelines on implementation of effluent standards and performance tests for sewage treatment plants, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2 RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the 2012 Guidelines, as amended, during testing and type approval of sewage treatment plants;

3 AGREES to keep the 2012 Guidelines, as amended, under review in light of experience gained with their application.

Parent topic: Resolution MEPC.284.(70) - Amendments to the 2012 Guidelines on implementation of Effluent Standards and Performance Tests for Sewage Treatment Plants (Resolution MEPC.227(64)) - (Adopted on 28 October 2016)
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