Attached really useful guide from class NKK on the changes to legislation with effective dates and links to detailed guidance in the past and coming years ahead up until 2020.

The tables cover the following international conventions among those adopted by the IMO with three main categories:
"SAFETY", which covers the ICLL, SOLAS, and COLREG, "SECURITY", which covers SOLAS and" POLLUTION", which covers MARPOL , AFC and BWM.

• ICLL (International Convention on Load Lines)
• SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea)
• MARPOL (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating hereto)
• COLREG (Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972)
• AFS (International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships)
• BWM (International Convention on the Control and Management of Ship's Ballast Water and Sediments,2004)

The items in the table are new mandatory requirements for either new and/or existing vessels under relevant international conventions in addition to the current regulations and conventions.