Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Marine Pollution from Ships - No.1307 - 2025 Revised Edition

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Administrative correspondence and circular introducing the 2025 Revised Edition of the Administrative Measures for the Ship Pollution Response Agreement Regime under China’s Maritime Safety Administration. The notice sets the effective date as May 20, 2025 and repeals the 2020 edition, aiming to standardize the ship pollution response agreement regime and improve SPRO governance and emergency pollution response capabilities. It summarizes amendment areas across seven chapters and twenty-five articles, including revised personnel qualification requirements, equipment and materials labeling, industry association provisions, exemption circumstances, and SPRO information disclosure updates.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLetters

FormatPDF

Pages34

Reading Time12 min

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Regulations and Effective Date

Key Purpose of the Circular

Core Contents of Amendments

Personnel Qualifications and Training Records

Pollution Response Equipment and Materials

Ship Pollution Response Industry Associations

Exemptions for Concluding Agreements

Information Disclosure by SPROs

No.1307 29 May 2025 To the Members Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Marine Pollution from Ships (No.20)－2025 Revised Edition We refer Members to previous circulars resting with our circular No.19-020 dated 2 March 2020. The Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) of the Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China revised and issued the 2025 edition of the Administrative Measures for the Ship Pollution Response Agreement Regime. The New Measures came into force on May 20 2025, and its 2020 edition was repealed simultaneously. The implementation of the New Measures will further standardize the ship pollution response agreement regime, strengthen the management ofSPROs, and enhance their emergency pollution response capabilities. For details of the key changes and their significance, please find attached the circular from our correspondent, Huatai Insurance Agency & Consultant Service Ltd. Yours faithfully, The Japan Ship Owners’ Mutual Protection & Indemnity Association Attachment: Huatai Circular No.PNI(2025)04 PNI [2025] 04 22 May 2025 Official Release of the 2025 Revised Edition of the Administrative Measures for the Ship Pollution Response Agreement Regime Recently, the Maritime Safety Administration（ MSA) of the Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China revised and issued the 2025 edition of the Administrative Measures for the Ship Pollution Response Agreement Regime ( hereinafter referred to as the "New Measures") . The New Measures shall come into force on May 20 , 2025 , and its 2020 edition shall be repealed simultaneously. This Circular aims to introduce the core content of the amendments and their significance , provide relevant suggestions and the free translation of the New Measures for the Clubs and their Members’ reference. Core Contents of the Amendments The New Measures consist of seven chapters and twenty-five articles. In addition to making structural adjustments and optimizations to its 2020 edition, as well as some minor amendments to the wordings, the core contents of this revision are summarized in the table below: | Amendment
Area | 2020 Provisions | 2025 Amendments | Key Changes and Their Significance | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Qualifications
of Emergency
Personnel | Emergency senior and on-site command personnel of the Ship Pollution Response Organizations (SPROs) must participate in IMO training, obtain certificates , and maintain knowledge refreshment (without specifying training cycle and record-keeping duration) . | 1. Clarify that senior command personnel , on-site command personnel , and emergency operation personnel of SPROs shall possess corresponding capabilities.
2. Mandate knowledge refreshment cycles for senior and on-site command personnel shall not exceed 2 years , and SPROs must retain training records for at least 2 years.
3. Delete expressions of self-organize training for emergency operation personnel by SPROs. | Enhance requirements on capabilities and training for personnel of SPROs , strengthen the sustainability of personnel capabilities , and eliminating "one-time compliance" approach to personnel qualifications. | | Requirements | Emergency equipment | Remove the requirement | Reduce cost burdens of | | for Pollution | and materials must be | for the emergency | SPROs , adapt to | | Response | appropriately labeled by | equipment and materials | differentiated industry | | Equipment and | SPROs and shall be | must be “automatically | development , minimize | | Materials | automatically identifiable. | identifiable”. | unnecessary | | Amendment
Area | 2020 Provisions | 2025 Amendments | Key Changes and Their Significance | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | | | technological dependency, and achieve a balance between regulatory requirements and implementation feasibility. | | Ship Pollution
Response
Industry
Associations | A SPRO may voluntarily join r

FAQs

When do the 2025 Revised Edition Administrative Measures take effect, and what happens to the 2020 edition?

The 2025 Revised Edition comes into force on May 20, 2025, and the 2020 edition is repealed simultaneously.

What major change was made to SPRO personnel qualification and training requirements?

The amendments clarify required capabilities for different categories of SPRO personnel and mandate that knowledge refreshment cycles for senior and on-site command personnel do not exceed 2 years, with training records retained for at least 2 years.

How do the 2025 amendments address pollution response equipment and materials requirements?

The 2025 version removes the prior emergency equipment/material labeling requirement and introduces a requirement that equipment and materials must be “automatically identifiable,” reducing cost burdens while supporting implementation feasibility.

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