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End-Points of the DSS

The selective approach in the process of BWM based on this DSS may result in one
of the following situations:

- vessel is turned away because she has not submitted required data;

- vessel does not need to discharge ballast water;

- vessel may conduct BWM in advance;

- vessel is exempted from BWM requirements based on BWRA;

- vessel requested to conduct BWM may be able to comply or not;

- vessel requested to conduct BWM may do it properly or not;

- vessel may be selected for CME;

- vessel may be allowed to discharge unmanaged ballast water;

- vessel was able to comply with BWM requirements, but did not conduct BWM

at all so she is turned away;

- vessel was able to comply with BWM requirements, but did not conduct BWM

properly so she is turned away;

- sampling from CME reveals that BWM standards are not met so that the debal-

lasting has to be stopped; or

- vessel found not in compliance may be penalized.

In addition to the decisions relating to BWM, a reassessment of the RA proce-
dure is provided in the DSS process, which is important for further improvement of
RA results.

Acknowledgements Part of these results were obtained in the framework of the research project
Decision Model and Control of Ballast Water Management in the Slovenian Sea (L2-6291), which
was fi nancially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency and the Port of Koper (Luka Koper
d.d.) and as Matej David's PhD work, supervised by Prof. Livij Jakomin, Slovenia and Prof. Chad
Hewitt, Australia. The research leading to part of these results has received funding from the
European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement
No. [266445] for the project Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on
Economic Sectors (VECTORS).

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