The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (“the BWMC”), developed and adopted by the IMO, will come into force one year after ratification by at least 30 States comprising 35% of the world’s total gross tonnage. The UK P&I Club has recently issued Legal Briefing to address BWM concerns.
The compliance schedule
The Convention was drafted with an implementation schedule included under regulation B-3.This schedule anticipated that the requisite number of ratifying countries with the necessary percentage of gross tonnage would have been attained and the Convention entered into force as from 1st January 2014. As the Convention did not come into force by 1st January 2014, the compliance schedule could not be enforced.Therefore, on 25th November 2013, the IMO Assembly formally adopted by Resolution A.1088(28) a revised implementation schedule (see above).This schedule was proposed by MEPC 65 in May 2013. Under this revised schedule, the date for a ship to comply is determined by her ballast capacity, construction date and the date of her first IOPP renewal survey after Entry Into Force (“EIF”).
UK P&I Club has included the following table in its latest publication:
Learn more about outstanding concerns on Ballast Water and how IMO has responded so far by reading Club’s Legal Briefing – Latest Update on the BWM Convention.
Source: UK P&I Club
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