ANNEX I OF MARPOL 73/78REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION

BY OIL
CHAPTER 3 - REQUIREMENTS FOR MACHINERY SPACES OF ALL SHIPS PART B –
EQUIPMENT
Regulation 14 - Oil filtering equipment

• any ship of 400 gross tonnage and above but less than 10,000 gross tonnage shall
be fitted with oil filtering equipment
• Oil filtering equipment referred to in paragraph 1 of this regulation shall be of a
design approved by the Administration and shall be such as will ensure that any oily
mixture discharged into the sea after passing through the system has an oil content
not exceeding 15 parts per million.
• Oil filtering equipment referred to any ship of 10,000 gross tonnage and above shall
be fitted with oil filtering equipment shall be provided with alarm arrangement to
indicate when this level cannot be maintained. The system shall also be provided
with arrangements to ensure that any discharge of oily mixtures is automatically
stopped when the oil content of the effluent exceeds 15 parts per million.
• Ships, such as hotel ships, storage vessels, etc., which are stationary except for non-
cargo-carrying relocation voyages need not be provided with oil filtering equipment.
The Administration shall ensure that ships of less than 400 gross tonnage are
equipped, as far as practicable, to retain on board oil or oily mixtures or discharge
them to shore facility.
• The Administration may waive the requirements for any ship engaged exclusively on
voyages within special areas or Arctic waters, any ship certified under the
International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft, engaged on a scheduled service
with a turn-around time not exceeding 24 hours and covering also non-
passenger/cargo-carrying relocation voyages for these ships, provided
- the ship is fitted with a holding tank having a volume adequate
- all oily bilge water is retained on board for subsequent discharge to reception
facilities;
- the quantity, time, and port of the discharge are recorded in the Oil Record Book
Part I.
PART C - CONTROL OF OPERATIONAL DISCHARGE OF OIL
A. Discharges outside special areas except in Arctic waters
Any discharge into the sea of oil or oily mixtures from ships of 400 gross tonnage and above
shall be prohibited except when all the following conditions are satisfied:
- the ship is proceeding en route;
- the oily mixture is processed through an oil filtering equipment meeting the
requirements of regulation 14
- the oil content of the effluent without dilution does not exceed 15 parts per million;
- the oily mixture does not originate from cargo pump room bilges on oil tankers;
and
- the oily mixture, in case of oil tankers, is not mixed with oil cargo residues
B. Discharges in special areas
Any discharge into the sea of oil or oily mixtures from ships of 400 gross tonnage and above
shall be prohibited except when all of the following conditions are satisfied:
 - the ship is proceeding en route;
- the oily mixture is processed through an oil filtering equipment meeting the
requirements of regulation 14.7 (The system shall also be provided with
arrangements to ensure that any discharge of oily mixtures is automatically
stopped when the oil content of the effluent exceeds 15 parts per million.)
- the oil content of the effluent without dilution does not exceed 15 parts per million;
- the oily mixture does not originate from cargo pump room bilges on oil tankers;
and
- the oily mixture, in case of oil tankers, is not mixed with oil cargo residues.
D. General requirements
- No discharge into the sea shall contain chemicals or other substances in
quantities or concentrations which are hazardous to the marine environment or
chemicals or other substances introduced for the purpose of circumventing the
conditions of discharge specified in this regulation.
- The oil residues which cannot be discharged into the sea in compliance with this
regulation shall be retained on board for subsequent discharge to reception
facilities.
Regulation 17 - Oil Record Book, Part I - Machinery space operations
- Every oil tanker of 150 gross tonnage and above and every ship of 400 gross
tonnage and above other than an oil tanker shall be provided with an Oil Record
Book Part I (Machinery Space Operations). The Oil Record Book, whether as a
part of the ship's official logbook, as an electronic record book which shall be
approved by the Administration
- The Oil Record Book Part I shall be completed on each occasion, on a tank-to-
tank basis if appropriate, whenever any of the following machinery space
operations takes place in the ship:
ballasting or cleaning of oil fuel tanks;
discharge of dirty ballast or cleaning water from oil fuel tanks;
collection and disposal of oil residues (oil residue (sludge));
discharge overboard or disposal otherwise of bilge water which has accumulated
in machinery spaces; and
bunkering of fuel or bulk lubricating oil.
- in the event of accidental or other exceptional discharge of oil not excepted by
that regulation, a statement shall be made in the Oil Record Book Part I of the
circumstances of, and the reasons for, the discharge.
- Each operation shall be fully recorded without delay in the Oil Record Book Part I,
so that all entries in the book appropriate to that operation are completed. Each
completed operation shall be signed by the officer or officers in charge of the
operations concerned and each completed page or group of electronic entries
shall be signed by the master of ship. The entries in the Oil Record Book Part I,
for ships holding an International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate, shall be at
least in English, French or Spanish. Where entries in an official national language
of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly are also used, this shall prevail in
case of a dispute or discrepancy.
- Any failure of the oil filtering equipment shall be recorded in the Oil Record Book
Part I.
- The Oil Record Book Part I, shall be kept in such a place as to be readily
available for inspection at all reasonable times and, except in the case of
 unmanned ships under tow, shall be kept on board the ship. It shall be preserved
for a period of three years after the last entry has been made.
- The competent authority of the Government of a Party to the present Convention
may inspect the Oil Record Book Part I on board any ship to which this Annex
applies while the ship is in its port or offshore terminals and may make a copy of
any entry in that book and may require the master of the ship to certify that the
copy is a true copy of such entry. Any copy so made which has been certified by
the master of the ship as a true copy of an entry in the ship's Oil Record Book
Part I shall be made admissible in any judicial proceedings as evidence of the
facts stated in the entry. The inspection of an Oil Record Book Part I and the
taking of a certified copy by the competent authority under this paragraph shall be
performed as expeditiously as possible without causing the ship to be unduly
delayed.