BWM Convention definition
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For this reason, on 4 December, 2013, the IMO Assembly passed a resolution revising the application dates of the BWM Convention so that they are triggered by the entry into force date and not the dates originally in the BWM Convention.
The BWM Convention will not become effective until 12 months after it has been adopted by 30 states, representing the combined merchant fleet of states representing not less than 35% of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet.
To date, the BWM Convention has not yet been ratified but proposals regarding implementation have recently been submitted to the IMO.
Although the convention has not entered into effect, some countries have already implemented the provisions of the BWM Convention in their national laws.
Many of the implementation dates in the BWM Convention have already passed, so that once the BWM Convention enters into force, the period of installation of mandatory ballast water exchange requirements would be extremely short, with several thousand ships a year needing to install ballast water management systems ("BWMS").
The Obligors shall procure that, at all times each Ship complies, at a minimum, with the BWM Convention and in the event that a Ship trades in jurisdictional waters which are subject to higher standards of ballast water requirements the Obligors shall ensure that such Ship complies with such higher standards.
The Committee noted that the number of Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (BWM Convention) on 18 April 2016 was 49, representing 34.79% of the world's merchant fleet tonnage.
The BWM Convention calls for a phased introduction of mandatory ballast water exchange requirements to be replaced in time with mandatory concentration limits.
The BWM Convention aims to prevent the spread of harmful aquatic organisms from one region to another, by establishing standards and procedures for the management and control of ships' ballast water and sediments.
Note that a MSC vessel’s compliance with the International Ship and Port Facility (ISPS) Code, Maritime Labor Convention (MLC), Maritime Pollution (MARPOL) Annex I (for single hull T-AO tankers, T-AOEs and T-AKEs as notated in paragraphs 15, 16, 19 and 25 in this MOA, Annex III) Annex VI (for Bunker Delivery Notices, see this MOA Annex III paragraph 26), and/or Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention are neither a prerequisite for enrollment into or required for continued participation in the MSC-ACP.