IMO MEPC

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) is the IMO body that develops and adopts measures to prevent and control pollution from ships. It owns MARPOL and all six annexes, the ballast-water and anti-fouling conventions, and the shipping decarbonization agenda. MEPC adopts amendments and guidelines by numbered resolutions in the form MEPC.NNN(SS), where SS is the session: MEPC.328(76) added EEXI and CII, MEPC.377(80) set the 2023 GHG Strategy, and MEPC.391(81) holds the 2024 lifecycle GHG-emission guidelines. It usually meets once or twice a year and reports to the IMO Council.