Noting the work IACS Members undertake as Recognized Organizations of IMO Member States, verifying compliance of ships with the IMO agreed requirements, and with a view to achieve clarity for all parties, IACS has submitted or co-sponsored the following papers:
PPR 10/14 proposes a draft unified interpretation for the form of the Bunker Delivery Note (BDN) referred to in regulation 18 (Fuel oil availability and quality) of MARPOL Annex VI, to confirm that BDNs are acceptable in either hard copy or digital form providing they meet the relevant requirements of MARPOL Annex VI.
PPR 10/17/2 addresses the issues of compliance with the sampling point location requirements in MEPC.1/Circ.864/Rev.1 related to the fuel oil lines serving the emergency generator. The paper considers the need to revise MEPC.1/Circ.864/Rev.1 to define alternative fuel oil sample point location arrangement for the tank serving the emergency generator.
IACS will also provide advice and comments to the Sub-Committee on a number of other issues, both in plenary and in the Working Groups that are expected to be established. IACS will contribute to the discussions also on agenda items 3, 5, 7 and 17.
Any enquiries on the above should be sent to Konstantin Petrov, IACS Accredited Representative to IMO, at arimo@iacs.org.uk