Amendments To The BCH Code Of The International Convention For The Prevention Of Pollution From Ships
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THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,
RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee conferred upon it by international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,
NOTING Article 16 of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "1973 Convention") and Article VI of the Protocol of 1978 relating to the 1973 Convention (hereinafter referred to as the "1978 Protocol") which together specify the amendment procedure of the 1978 Protocol and confers upon the appropriate body of the Organization the function of considering and adopting amendments to the 1973 Convention, as modified by the 1978 Protocol (MARPOL 73/78),
RECALLING ALSO Resolution MEPC.20(22) by which it adopted the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (BCH Code),
NOTING FURTHER Resolution MEPC.69(38), by which the Committee adopted amendments to the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code),
RECOGNIZING the need to bring the corresponding amendments into force on the date on which the amendments to the IBC Code enter into force,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its thirty-eighth session, amendments to the BCH Code proposed and circulated in accordance with Article 16(2)(a) of the MARPOL Convention,
1. ADOPTS, in accordance with Article 16(2)(b) of the 1973 Convention, amendments to the BCH Code, the text of which is set out at Annex to the present Resolution;
2. DETERMINES, in accordance with Article 16(2)(f)(iii) of the 1973 Convention, that the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 January 1998, unless prior to the date, not less than one-third of the Parties or the Parties, the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less than fifty per cent of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet, have communicated to the Organization their objections to the amendments;
3. INVITES the Parties to note that in accordance with Article 16(2)(g)(ii) of the 1973 Convention the amendments shall enter into force on 1 July 1998 in accordance with paragraph 2 above;
4. REQUESTS the Secretary-General, in conformity with Article 16(2)(e) of the 1973 Convention, to transmit to all Parties to the 1978 Protocol certified copies of the present Resolution and the text of the amendments contained in the Annex; and
5. REQUESTS FURTHER the Secretary-General to transmit to the Members of the Organization which are not Parties to the 1978 Protocol copies of the Resolution and its Annex.
ANNEX
AMENDMENTS TO THE BCH CODE
1 New paragraph 4.18.4 is added to Chapter IV as follows:
"4.18.4 In order to avoid elevated temperatures, this cargo should not be carried in deck tanks."
2 The cross reference between paragraphs 16.6 of the IBC Code and 4.18 of the BCH Code is replaced by the following:
IBC Code reference -BCH Code reference
16.6.1[TAB]4.18.1
16.6.2[TAB]4.18.2
16.6.3[TAB]4.18.3
16.6.4[TAB]4.18.4
