During its sixty-sixth session, the MEPC reviewed
the environmental requirements under the proposed
draft Polar Code. It also considered the proposed
draft amendments to MARPOL to make the
Code mandatory. A correspondence group was
established to finalize these draft amendments and
the environmental requirements, and to report to the
sixty-seventh session of the MEPC. Other chapters of
the draft Polar Code have been under consideration
by other IMO bodies64 according to their areas of
competence, with a view to final adoption by both the
MEPC and the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) in
the autumn of 2014.