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WITHERBY PUBLISHING GROUP IMO REGULATIONS COMING INTO FORCE Updated to January 2020

REGULATION	Amendments to MARPOL Annex VI
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MEPC.305(73)
SHIP TYPE	All ships
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/03/2020
SUMMARY	Prohibition on the carriage of non-compliant fuel oil for combustion purposes for propulsion or operation on board a ship.

REGULATION	Amendments to the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code)
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.460(101) and MEPC.318(74)
SHIP TYPE	Ships carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (subject to BCH Code)
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/07/2020
SUMMARY	These amendments include the revised chapters 17 (Summary of minimum requirements), 18 (List of products to which the code does not apply), 19 (Index of Products Carried in Bulk) and 21 (Criteria for assigning carriage requirements for products subject to the IBC Code).

REGULATION	Amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (BCH Code)
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.463(101) and MEPC.319(74)
SHIP TYPE	Ships carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (subject to BCH Code)
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/07/2020
SUMMARY	These relate to the corresponding draft amendments to the IBC Code.

REGULATION	Amendments to MARPOL Annex I, II and V
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MEPC.314(74)
SHIP TYPE	All ships (as applicable)
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/10/2020
SUMMARY	These amendments allow for electronic record books (ERB) to be used.

REGULATION	Amendments to MARPOL VI
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MEPC.316(74)
SHIP TYPE	All ships (as applicable)
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/10/2020
SUMMARY	These amendments allow for electronic record books (ERB) Electronic Record Books and also contain revised EEDI regulations for ice-strengthened ships.

REGULATION	Amendments to the IMSBC Code
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.462(101) and
SHIP TYPE	Ships carrying bulk cargoes
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/07/2021
SUMMARY	Amendment ‘05-19’. The 2019 amendments include updates to various schedules (such as a new individual schedule for BAUXITE FINES as a Group A cargo), as well as editorial amendments. The amendments are incorporated into a consolidated IMSBC Code. MSC also approved a related draft MSC circular

REGULATION	Amendments to the ESP Code
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.461(101)
SHIP TYPE	Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers (as applicable)
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2021
SUMMARY	Substantial amendments to the existing ESP Code, negating the need for a future consolidated 2019 edition.

REGULATION	Maritime Cyber Risk Management in Safety Management Systems
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.428(98): http://shippingregs.org/7980.re
SHIP TYPE	All ships
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2021
SUMMARY	A resolution affirming that an approved safety management system should take into account cyber risk management in accordance with the objectives and functional requirements of the ISM Code. Administrations are encouraged to ensure that cyber risks are appropriately addressed in safety management systems no later than the first annual verification of the company's Document of Compliance after 1 January 2021; however this is not mandatory.

REGULATION	Amendments to MARPOL Annex II
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.315(74)
SHIP TYPE	Ships carrying chemicals
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2021
SUMMARY	These amendments relate to cargo residues and tank washings of persistent floating noxious liquid substances (NLS). These amendments strengthen, in specified sea areas, discharge requirements for cargo residues and tank washings containing persistent floating products with a high viscosity and/or a high melting point that can solidify under certain conditions (e.g. certain vegetable oils and paraffin-like cargoes). The amendments add new paragraphs to MARPOL Annex II, Regulation 13 on the Control of discharges of residues of noxious liquid substances, to require prewash and discharge of residue/water mixture generated during the prewash to a reception facility, for specific products, in specified areas (Northwest European waters, Baltic Sea area, Western European waters and Norwegian Sea).

REGULATION	Amendments to SOLAS Appendix Certificates
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.456(101)
SHIP TYPE	All ships
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2024
SUMMARY	These relate to the appendix of certificates and the record of equipment, relating to rudder, propeller, thrust, pitch and the operational mode indicator. Specifically Record of Equipment for Cargo Ship Safety (Forms C and E) and Record of Equipment for Passenger Ship Safety (Form P).

REGULATION	Amendments to the International Code of Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code)
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.457(101)
SHIP TYPE	Ships with inert gas systems
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2024
SUMMARY	These amendments relate to inert gas systems (specifically inert gas lines, indicators and alarms).

REGULATION	Amendments to the IGF Code
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.458(101)
SHIP TYPE	Ships using Gases or other Low-Flashpoint Fuels
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2024
SUMMARY	These include amendments related to ship design and arrangement, the fuel containment system, the fuel supply to consumers regulations, power generation (including propulsion and other gas consumers), and fire safety regulations.

REGULATION	Amendments to the LSA Code
REFERENCE DOCUMENT	MSC.459(101)
SHIP TYPE	All ships
ENTRY INTO FORCE	01/01/2024
SUMMARY	These relate to general requirements for lifeboats and launching and embarkation appliances (specifically relating to stored mechanical power requirements and, for rescue boats that are not survival craft, the option for gravity/manual hoisting).