The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has published this consultation to seeks your views on a new Statutory Instrument (SI) and accompanying Merchant Guidance Notes (MGNs).
The purpose of this new SI is to revoke the current Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1997 (“the 1997 Regulations”) along with a number of other dangerous goods related regulations and replace them with revised regulations which have been developed to provide a more complete, consolidated and up to date legal framework for the carriage of dangerous goods and harmful substances by sea.
The proposed new Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Harmful Substances) Regulations 2024 (“the 2024 Regulations”) are set out in a more succinct format than the existing 1997 Regulations. They point directly to the relevant Convention requirements of Chapter VII of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (“SOLAS”) and Protocol I and Annex III of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (“MARPOL”).
This consultation closes at
Source: MCA.