The government adopted that the Russian Federation Ministry of transport approves the provision on keeping of the register of the bunker fuel suppliers, this register’s form and establishes the list of sea ports which are under the Russian Federation jurisdiction, where emissions of the volatile organic compounds are regulated.
According to this regulation, Federal Agency of maritime and river transport has to organize execution of the works on control of the ships in the Russian Federation ports with a purpose of fulfillment of the requirements of Protocol the year 1997 on creation and operation of the systems of control over emissions of the volatile organic compounds in sea ports, on intake of the ozone-destructing substances and the equipment containing such substances, which is removed from the ships as well as intake of the remains of the exhausted gases purification from the approved system of the gases purification and to keep the register of the liquid bunker fuel suppliers.
For the Russian Federation, Annex VI to MARPOL enters into force from July 2011.
A draft of the regulation was earlier constructively criticized by experts of the Federation Council’s Commission on national maritime policy. The basis for such critics was that in the regulation’s draft it was planned to assign the control over execution of the protocol’s requirements to Federal Agency of maritime and river transport, and provision of fee-based services to the recognized organizations which are controlled by this Agency. The draft developers disregarded Federal Service of supervision in the sphere of transport, to which it is assigned to carry out control and supervision over fulfillment of International Conventions and agreements in the abovementioned sphere according to the Russian Federation Government regulation ¹398 dated 30.07.2004.
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