(b) Ballast water management
After considering the reports of the twenty-sixth
and twenty-seventh meetings of the Joint Group
of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine
Environment Protection Ballast Water Working Group
(GESAMP–BWWG), which took place in 2013, the
MEPC during its sixty-sixth session granted basic
approval to four,56 and final approval to two ballast
water management systems57 that make use of
active substances.