MEPC.332(76)

RESOLUTION MEPC.332(76)(adopted on 17 June 2021)AMENDMENTS TO THE 2018 GUIDELINES ON THE METHOD OF CALCULATION OFTHE ATTAINED ENERGY EFFICIENCY DESIGN INDEX(EEDI)FOR NEW SHIPS(RESOLUTION MEPC.308(73),AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION MEPC.322(74))THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,RECALLING article 38(a)of the Convention on the International Maritime Organizationconcerning the functions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (the Committee)conferred upon it by international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollutionfrom ships,RECALLING ALSO that,at its sixty-second session,it adopted,by resolution MEPC.203(62),Amendments to the annex of the Protocol of 1997 to amend the International Convention forthe Prevention of Pollution from Ships,1973,as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relatingthereto (inclusion of regulations on energy efficiency for ships in MARPOL Annex VI),NOTING that the aforementioned amendments to MARPOL Annex VI entered into forceon 1 January 2013,NOTING ALSO that regulation 22(Attained Energy Efficiency Design Index(attained EEDI))of MARPOL Annex VI,as amended,requires that the EEDI shall be calculated taking intoaccount the guidelines developed by the Organization,NOTING FURTHER the 2012 Guide lines on the method of calculation of the attained EnergyEfficiency Design Index (EEDI)for new ships,adopted at its sixty-third session by resolutionMEPC.212(63),superseded by the 2014 Guidelines on the method of calculation of theattained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)for new ships (resolution MEPC.245(66)),which were subsequently superseded by the 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation ofthe attained Energy Efficiency Design Index(EEDI)for new ships (resolution MEPC.308(73)),NOTING that,at its seventy-fourth session,it adopted,by resolution MEPC.322(74),Amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained EnergyEfficiency Design Index(EEDI)for new ships,HAVING CONSIDERED,at its seventy-sixth session,proposed amendments to the 2018Guidelines on the method of calculation of the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index(EEDI)for new ships(resolution MEPC.308(73),as amended by resolution MEPC.322(74)),ADOPTS amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on the method of calculation of theattained Energy Efficiency Design Index(EEDI)for new ships(resolution MEPC.308(73),asamended by resolution MEPC.322(74)),as set out in the annex to the present resolution;2INVITES Administrations to take into account the aforementioned amendments whendeveloping and enacting national laws which give force to,and implement provisions set forthin regulation 20 of MARPOL Annex VI,as amended;