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Annex I
 
Chapter 1 - General
 
1 Definitions
2 Application
3 Exemptions and waivers
4 Exceptions
5 Equivalents
 
Chapter 2 - Surveys and certification
 
6 Surveys
7 Issue or endorsement of certificate
8 Issue or endorsement of certificate by another Government
9 Form of certificate
10 Duration and validity of certificate
11 Port State control on operational requirements
 
Chapter 3 - Requirements for machinery spaces of all ships
Part A - Construction
12 Tanks for oil residues (sludge)
13 Standard discharge connection
 
Part B - Equipment
14 Oil filtering equipment
 
Part C - Control of operational discharge of oil
15 Control of discharge of oil
16 Segregation of oil and water ballast and carriage of oil in forepeak tanks
17 Oil Record Book, Part I - Machinery space operations
 
Chapter 4 - Requirements for the cargo areas of oil tankers
 
Part A - Construction
18 Segregated ballast tanks
19 Double hull and double bottom requirements for oil tankers delivered on or after 6 July 1996
20 Double hull and double bottom requirements for oil tankers delivered before 6 July 1996
21 Prevention of oil pollution from oil tankers carrying heavy grade oil as cargo
22 Pump-room bottom protection
23 Accidental oil outflow performance
24 Damage assumptions
25 Hypothetical outflow of oil
26 Limitations of size and arrangement of cargo tanks
27 Intact stability
28 Subdivision and damage stability
29 Slop tanks
30 Pumping, piping and discharge arrangement
 
Part B - Equipment
31 Oil discharge monitoring and control system
32 Oil/water interface detector
33 Crude oil washing requirements
 
Part C - Control of operational discharge of oil
34 Control of discharge of oil
35 Crude oil washing operations
36 Oil Record Book, Part II - Cargo/ballast operations
 
Chapter 5 - Prevention of oil pollution arising from an oil pollution incident
 
37 Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan
 
Chapter 6 - Reception facilities
 
38 Reception facilities
 
Chapter 7 - Special requirements for fixed or floating platforms
39 Special requirements for fixed or floating platforms
 
Appendices to Annex I
 
AI List of oils
AII Form of IOPP Certificate and Supplements
AIII Form of Oil Record Book
 
Unified Interpretations of Annex I
 
Appendices to Unified Interpretations of Annex I
 
A1 Guidance to Administrations concerning draughts recommended for segregated ballast tankers below 150 m in length
 
A2 Interim recommendation for a unified interpretation of regulations 18.12-18.15 ''Protective location of segregated ballast spaces
 
A3 Connection of small diameter line to the manifold valve
 
A4 Specifications for the design, installation and operation of a part flow system for control of overboard discharges
 
A5 Discharges from fixed or floating platforms

Annex I- Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil

Chapter 3 - Requirements for machinery spaces of all ships

Part A - Construction
Regulation 12 - Tanks for oil residues (sludge)

1 Every ship of 400 gross tonnage and above shall be provided with a tank or tanks of adequate capacity, having regard to the type of machinery and length of voyage, to receive the oil residues (sludge) which cannot be dealt with otherwise in accordance with the requirements of this Annex, such as those resulting from the purification of fuel and lubricating oils and oil leakages in the machinery spaces.

SEE INTERPRETATIONS 15.1 AND 15.2

2 Piping to and from sludge tanks shall have no direct connection overboard, other than the standard discharge connection referred to in regulation 13.

SEE INTERPRETATION 16

3 In ships delivered after 31 December 1979, as defined in regulation 1.28.2, tanks for oil residues shall be designed and constructed so as to facilitate their cleaning and the discharge of residues to reception facilities. Ships delivered on or before 31 December 1979, as defined in regulation 1.28.1, shall comply with this requirement as far as is reasonable and practicable.

SEE INTERPRETATION 17.1