THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,

　

 RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee conferred upon it by the international conventions for the prevention and control of marine pollution,

　

 RECALLING ALSO that the International Conference on Ballast Water Management for Ships held in February 2004 adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (the Ballast Water Management Convention) together with four Conference resolutions,

　

 NOTING that Regulation A-2 of the Ballast Water Management Convention requires that discharge of ballast water shall only be conducted though Ballast Water Management in accordance with the provisions of the Annex to the Convention,

　

 NOTING FURTHER that Regulation D-3.2 of the Annex to the Ballast Water Management Convention provides that Ballast Water Management systems that make use of Active Substances or Preparations containing one or more Active Substances used to comply with this Convention, shall be approved by the Organization based on a Procedure developed by the Organization,

　

 NOTING ALSO that resolution 1 adopted by the International Conference on Ballast Water Management for Ships invited the Organization to develop this Procedure as a matter of urgency,

　

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its fifty-third session, the draft Procedure for Approval of Ballast Water Management systems that make use of Active Substances developed by the Ballast Water Working Group,

　

1. ADOPTS the Procedure for approval of Ballast Water Management Systems that make use of Active Substances, as set out in the Annex to this resolution;

　

2. INVITES Governments to apply the Procedure as soon as possible, or when the Convention becomes applicable to them; and

　

3. AGREES to keep the Procedure under review.