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Action dates
IMO's conventions are regularly amended and revised while new instruments/protocols are adopted. The
dates of entry into force of amendments/instruments already adopted are shown.
Date of entry
into force
Convention or Code
Latest Ratifications
1 January
2009
1 July 2009
1 December
2009
1 January
2010
1 January
2010
1 July 2010
1 July 2010
1 July 2010
1 January
2011
SOLAS
COLREG
STCW
SAR
SUA
Load Lines
MARPOL
Ship Recycling Convention
Removal of Wrecks
Anti-fouling Systems
Expanded Information
Date of entry
into force
1 January
2009
Convention or Code
May 2005 amendments to SOLAS
A revised SOLAS chapter II-1 is intended to harmonize the provisions on subdivision and
damage stability for passenger and cargo ships. The revised provisions in parts A, B and
B-1 will be applicable to new ships built after the expected entry into force date of 1
January 2009.
The amendments, which have been intensively developed over the past decade, are based
on the "probabilistic" method of determining damage stability, which is itself based on the
detailed study of data collected by IMO relating to collisions. Because it is based on
statistical evidence concerning what actually happens when ships collide, the probabilistic
concept is believed to be far more realistic than the previously-used "deterministic"
method.
The revision has taken into account the results of the HARDER (Harmonisation of Rules
and Design Rational) research project: a project undertaken by a consortium of European
industrial, research and academic institutions to study the probabilistic approach for
assessing a ship's damage stability and to develop new criteria and indexes for subdivision
based on probability of survival, taking into account effects from waves, heeling moments,
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1 July 2009
1 December
2009
1 January
2010
1 January
2010
1 July 2010
amendments also provide regulatory flexibility so that ship designers can meet any safety
challenges the future may bring. The amendments include:
safety centres, from where safety systems can be controlled, operated and
on-board
monitored;
fire detection and alarm systems, including requirements for fire detectors and
fixed
manually operated call points to be capable of being remotely and individually
identified;
1 July 2010
1 January
2011
require MSDS to be provided for ships carrying oil or oil fuel, prior to the
loading of such oil as cargo in bulk or bunkering of oil fuel. The MSC also
approvedRecommendations for material safety data sheets (MSDS) for
MARPOL Annex I type cargoes and oil fuels.
July 2009 amendments to MARPOL
MARPOLAnnex I - transfer of oil cargo between oil tankers at sea
Amendments to MARPOL Annex I for the prevention of marine pollution during some shipto-ship (STS) oil transfer operations.
The new chapter 8 on Prevention of pollution during transfer of oil cargo between oil
tankers at sea will apply to oil tankers of 150 gross tonnage and above and will require
any oil tanker involved in oil cargo STS operations to have, on board, a plan prescribing
how to conduct STS operations (the STS Plan), which would be approved by its
Administration.
Notification to the relevant coastal State will be required not less than 48 hours in advance
of the scheduled STS operations although some relaxation to this rule is allowed in certain,
very specific, cases. The regulations are not intended to apply to bunkering operations.
Consequential amendments to the International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP) Certificate,
the Supplement to the IOPP Certificate and the Oil Record Book.
MARPOL Annex I Oil residue (sludge)
Amendments to MARPOL Annex I regulations 1, 12, 13, 17 and 38, relating to the on
board management of oil residue (sludge). The amendments clarify long standing
requirements and remove existing ambiguities in order to facilitate compliance by ships'
crews. Definitions for oil residue (sludge), oil residue (sludge) tanks, oily bilge water and
oily bilge water holding tanks are introduced for the first time.
Related amendments to the Supplement to the IOPP Certificate, Form A and Form B, and
to the Oil Record Book.