Considered and agreed to proposed draft
amendments to MARPOL Annex VI Regulation 13
on NOx to amend the date for the implementation
of tier III standards within ECAs to 1 January 2021, from the current effective date of 1 January
2016. The draft amendments will be circulated for
consideration at the sixty-sixth session of MEPC
(MEPC 66) in 2014, with a view to adoption;