밸러스트수 관리장치 개발 및 승인을 위한 IMO 지침서 고찰

Abstract

The international convention to prevent the potentially devastating effects of the spread of harmful aquatic organisms carried by ships' ballast water has been adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) at February 2004. The Convention will require all ships will have to carry out ballast water management procedures to a given standard. To meet given standard, almost of the ships must be install the ballast water management system. Following to the Convention, thirteen guidelines will be developed by IMO until to 2006. First of all, the guidelines for ballast water management systems - type approval(G8) and active substances(G9) - were developed by 52nd Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) at October 2004. The recommendation for the conduct of the review of treatment technologies was developed also by 52nd MEPC. This paper reviews these two guidelines and one recommendation for ballast water management systems and instructs methodologies for development and approval procedures for ballast water management systems in our country.