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territorial sea. Vessels have to submit a ballast water report form and ballast water
log to the Victorian Authority and must not discharge ballast water until written
permission has been granted to do so (EPA VIC 2012 ). 30
New Zealand
Vessels which uptake ballast water outside New Zealand waters can only discharge
in New Zealand waters with the approval of an inspector. New Zealand accepts
discharges of ballast water which was either
• exchanged at sea in areas free from coastal infl uences, preferably 200 NM from
the nearest land and in water over 200 m in depth;
is fresh water (not more than 2.5 ppt sodium chloride);
treated with a shipboard treatment system approved by the relevant New Zealand
authorities; or
discharged in an onshore treatment facility approved by the relevant New Zealand
authorities.
Should BWE be impossible to conduct, e.g., due to safety reasons, exceptions
apply. However, vessels having uptaken ballast water in areas assessed as high risk
are prohibited to discharge ballast water. It should be noted that presently no treat-
ment facilities are approved by the New Zealand authorities nor land-based ballast
water reception facilities. However, systems that have been type approved in accor-
dance with the requirements of IMO are taken as being approved by the New
Zealand authorities (MAF 2010 ).
As in Australia, no numerical ballast water discharge standard applies in New
Zealand. However, as above, if a ship entering New Zealand waters has a type
approved BWMS on board the D-2 standard would apply to the discharge. The New
Zealand government has agreed to accede to the BWM Convention, and has passed
the necessary primary legislation to enable this. New regulations need to be put in
place under the amended primary legislation, following which New Zealand will be
in a position to accede to the Convention.
Acknowledgements We express our grateful thanks to Brian Elliott, Arnaud Leroy and Mirja
Ikonen (EMSA) for their updated information on BWM developments in EU as well as to Violeta
Velikova, and Ahmet Kideys (Black Sea Commission, Istanbul, Turkey), for providing insights of
the BWM situation in the Black Sea countries. We also thank Jose Matheickal (IMO) for his com-
ments on the Caspian Sea chapter. We further like to thank two anonymous reviewers of the U.S.
chapter and Maurya Falkner (California State Lands Commission) for her review of the U.S. same
location concept. Part of this publication has been produced with the fi nancial assistance of the IPA
Adriatic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme - strategic project Ballast Water Management
System for Adriatic Sea Protection (BALMAS). The contents of this publication are the sole
responsibility of authors and can under no circumstances be regarded as refl ecting the position of
the IPA Adriatic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Authorities.
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