At its sixty-eighth session, MEPC agreed that the IMO secretariat should initiate in 2015 a review of the availability of compliant fuel oil to meet the global requirement that the sulphur content of fuel oil used on board ships shall not exceed 0.50 per cent as from 1 January 2020.40 The fuel oil availability review will be overseen by a steering committee41 and a final report will be submitted to the seventieth session of MEPC in autumn 2016.