Jul. 10 2017 Home Class & statutory BWM CONVENTION - PROCEDURE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF REGULATION D-1 LinkedIn Twitter Facebook share Convention BWM Ballast Water Management Flag ARUBA ANGOLA ANGUILLA ALBANIA CURACAO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ARGENTINA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BURUNDI BELGIUM BENIN BANGLADESH BULGARIA BAHRAIN BAHAMAS BELARUS BELIZE BERMUDA BOLIVIA BRAZIL BARBADOS BRUNEI DARUSSALAM CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CANADA SWITZERLAND CHILE CHINA COTE D'IVOIRE CAMEROON CONGO (D.R.) CONGO COOK ISLANDS COLOMBIA COMOROS CAPE VERDE (ISLANDS) COSTA RICA CUBA CAYMAN ISLANDS CYPRUS CZECH GERMANY DANISH INTERNATIONAL REGISTER DJIBOUTI / AFARS AND ISSAR DOMINICA DENMARK DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ALGERIA ECUADOR EGYPT ERITREA SPAIN ESTONIA ETHIOPIA FINLAND FIJI FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) FRANCE FAROE ISLANDS MICRONESIA GABON UNITED KINGDOM GEORGIA GHANA GIBRALTAR GILBERT AND ELLICE GUINEA GAMBIA GUINEE-BISSAU EQUATORIAL GUINEA GREECE GREENLAND GUATEMALA GUYANA HONG KONG HONDURAS CROATIA HAITI HUNGARY INDONESIA INDIA ISLE OF MAN IRELAND IRAN IRAQ ICELAND ISRAEL ITALY JAMAICA JERSEY JORDAN JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN KENYA CAMBODIA KIRIBATI SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS KOREA (NORTH) KOREA (SOUTH) KUWAIT LAOS PEOPLE LEBANON LIBERIA LIBYA SAINT LUCIA SRI LANKA LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG LATVIA MOROCCO MONACO MOLDOVA MADAGASCAR / MALAGASY (REP.) MALDIVES MEXICO MARSHALL ISLANDS PORTUGAL (MADEIRA INT. SHIP. REGISTER) MACEDONIA MALI MALTA MYANMAR MONTENEGRO MONGOLIA MOZAMBIQUE MAURITANIA MAURITIUS MALAWI MALAYSIA NAMIBIA NIGER NIGERIA NICARAGUA NORWEGIAN INTERNATIONAL REGISTER NIUE NETHERLANDS NORWAY NAURU NEW ZEALAND OMAN PAKISTAN PANAMA PERU PHILIPPINES PALAU PAPUA NEW GUINEA POLAND PORTUGAL PARAGUAY QATAR ROMANIA RUSSIAN FEDERATION SAUDI ARABIA SUDAN SENEGAL SINGAPORE SAINT HELENA SOLOMON ISLANDS SIERRA LEONE EL SALVADOR SAN MARINO SOMALIA SERBIA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SURINAME SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SWEDEN SEYCHELLES SYRIA ARAB REPUBLIC TURKS AND CAICOS (ISLANDS) TOGO THAILAND TURKMENISTAN TONGA TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TUNISIA TURKEY TUVALU TAIWAN TANZANIA (ZANZIBAR) TANZANIA (SUMATRA) UGANDA UKRAINE UNKNOWN URUGUAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VENEZUELA VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH) VIETNAM VANUATU SAMOA YEMEN YUGOSLAVIA SOUTH AFRICA Ship typeAll Sea going Ship types Issuance of Statement of Compliance or of International Ballast Water Management Certificate according to Regulation D-1 only In light of the imminent entry into force of the BWM Convention, the IMO MEPC 71 Committee recalled BWM.2/Circ.40 on " Issuance of Ballast Water Management Certificates prior to entry into force of the BWM Convention and Ballast Water Management Plans approved according to resolution A.868(20)." The Committee re-affirmed the provisions of this Circular and invited Members Governments, in their capacities both as Flag and Port States, to apply it so as to facilitate the fair and consistent implementation of the BWM Convention upon its entry into force. As a consequence of the above and unless otherwise instructed by the ship's Flag State Administration, for compliance with Regulation D-1 only, an International BWM Certificate or a Statement of Compliance, depending on the ship’s Flag , will be issued by Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, before the entry into force of the Convention, upon receipt of the BWM plan for approval, with the annotation that this document is valid provided the BWM plan on-board will be approved not later than 8th December 2017. Thi