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Guidance to Ballast Water Sampling and Analysis for Trial Use in Accordance
with the BWM Convention and Guidelines G2
). The draft BWS circular was
adopted at MEPC65, May 2013 (IMO
2013
). It includes a list of sample analysis
protocols, methodologies and approaches for D-1 and D-2 standards compliance
tests as well as recommendations for a trial period during which sampling expe-
rience may be gained. It was agreed that this experience will be used to update
the BWS circular accordingly. However, it is stated in the document that repre-
sentative sampling methods are still developing (IMO
2013
) so that no detailed
requirement regarding the number of samples to take, or on their volume could
be included.
Our sampling experiences contributed substantially to the BWS methods sug-
gested here and were gained from the author's involvement in various national and
international research studies, expert, scientifi c and/or governmental working
groups or organisations (i.e., ICES/IOC/IMO Working Group on Ballast and Other
Ship Vectors, Ballast Water Management Sub Commission for the Adriatic Sea,
IMO/MEPC Ballast Water Working Group, Global Ballast Water Management
Programme of GEF-UNDP-IMO, the European Maritime Safety Agency and the
relevant national authorities). In these activities different aspects (i.e., biological,
nautical, technical, logistical) of ballast water sampling were addressed.
We further like to highlight our fi ndings and experiences from three studies on
representative BWS for compliance monitoring, which were conducted for the
Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg, Germany in 2009 and 2012,
and for the European Maritime Safety Agency, Lisbon, Portugal in 2010 (Gollasch
and David
2009
,
2010a
,
b
,
2013
). This was in addition complimented by our sam-
pling experience gained on more than 80 shipboard tests for the type approval of 18
different BWMS which were conducted since 2004. A comprehensive report, pre-
pared by David (
2013
) for WWF International, provides recommendations for rep-
resentative ballast water sampling for compliance control with the BWM Convention
and was considered in detail when drafting this topic chapter.
Sampling for Compliance Control
After the BWM Convention enters into force, IMO Member states will be required
to check compliance of vessels with the standards of the BWM Convention, and one
way of doing this is sampling ballast water. As per Article 9.1
Inspection of Ships
,
it is stated that ships to which the BWM Convention applies may be subject to
inspections for the purpose of revealing possible violations of the provisions of the
BWM Convention. These inspections shall:
•
Verify that a valid Ballast Water Management Certifi cate is carried on board;
•
Verify that a Ballast Water Management Plan is on board which is specifi c to the
ship and is also approved by the Flag state;
•
Undertake a review of the on board Ballast Water Record Topic.
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