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International Energy Efficiency Certificate (mandatory from 2013-01-01
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International Energy Efficiency (IEE)
Resolution MEPC.203(62), adopted on 15 July 2011, includes REGULATIONS FOR
ENERGY EFFICIENCY for ships in MARPOL Annex VI.
These are new requirements which apply in addition to the already existing requirements
of MARPOL Annex VI. The regulations for energy efficiency will enter into force 2013-01-
01 and apply 1 to all ships of 400 gross tonnage and above.
International Energy Efficiency Certificate (IEEC)
There will be a NEW certificate: International Energy Efficiency Certificate (IEEC), which
shall be issued for both new and existing ships to which chapter 4 of MARPOL Annex VI
applies.
This statutory Certificate will be issued for newbuildings upon the initial survey before the
ship is put into service and for existing ships of 400 gross tonnage and above.
The IEE Certificate will be issued once for each ship in GL class and shall be valid
throughout the lifetime of the ship. The International Energy Efficiency Certificate is
specific to each ship and must be kept available on board for normal inspections and
audits.
The IEEC shall only cease to be valid in any of the following cases:
• if the ship is withdrawn from service; or
• if a new certificate is issued following major conversion 2 of the ship; or
• upon transfer of the ship to the flag of another State
In case of flag change, a new certificate shall only be issued when the Government issuing
the new certificate is fully satisfied that the ship is in compliance with the requirements of
MARPOL Annex VI, chapter 4. Therefore the Government whose flag the ship was
formerly entitled to fly shall, as soon as possible, transmit to the Administration whose flag
the ship will fly, copies of the certificate by the ship before the transfer and, if available,
copies of the relevant survey reports.
The voluntary certification (i.e. issuance of EEDI Statement of Compliance or SEEMP
Statement of Compliance) carried out before the IEEC entering into force does not
substitute the IEEC certification of the ship. In any case the required IEEC certification will
have to be obtained.
1 For reference see MARPOL 73/78 Annex VI, chapter 4, regulation 19 – Application
2 The interpretation of the term “major conversion” is currently based on MEPC 64/WP.11, Annex 1
– Draft Unified Interpretation to MARPOL Annex VI. But in the foreseeable future the term “major
conversion” will be accurately defined in IMO Resolution MEPC 64.
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IEEC scope for ships in service
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Each existing ship shall keep on board a ship-specific Ship Energy Efficiency Management
Plan.
Platforms (including FPSOs and FSUs) and drilling rigs are NOT required to have a
SEEMP.
The verification of the requirement to have a SEEMP on board shall take place at the first
intermediate or renewal survey whichever is the first, on or after 1 January 2013. The
SEEMP is required on board starting from the time of the survey, not earlier.
For ships in service, the IEEC initial survey will be in connection with an
intermediate/renewal survey of the IAPP certificate, i.e. these IAPP survey windows will
also become the IEEC initial survey date for existing ships. An approval of the SEEMP by
GL in advance to the intermediate or renewal survey is not required.
The Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan is regulated in MARPOL 73/78, Annex VI,
chapter 4, regulation 22. The SEEMP provides an approach on an operational basis by
monitoring ship and fleet efficiency performance.
The SEEMP lists the measures which are used for improving the energy efficiency of a
ship. Upon the survey, the surveyor will check if the SEEMP is available on board. The
SEEMP should be established in a working language used on board. GL expects ships to
have the SEEMP in the same language as the majority of the other documents on board. A
sample form of the SEEMP can be found in “IMO Resolution MEPC.213(63) – 2012
Guidelines for the development of a Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan”. Resolution
MEPC.213(63) will be provided on the GL homepage.
The ship owner is obliged to develop a SEEMP taking into account the guidelines adopted
by the International Maritime Organisation. The Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan
may form a part of the ship’s safety management system 3 . The ship owner assumes full
responsibility that each ship of their fleet keeps a ship-specific Energy Efficiency
Management Plan.
In case of the existence of the SEEMP on board an existing ship, the International Energy
Efficiency Certificate (IEEC) is issued. In case of a missing SEEMP, the recognised
organisation should seek the advice of the Administration concerning the issuance of an
IEEC. However if the SEEMP is missing, it has NO effect on the International Air Pollution
Prevention (IAPP) certificate.
If you request assistance in developing a SEEMP, please contact us. Our SEEMP experts
will get in touch with you and we may offer to assist in compiling a well grounded SEEMP.
IEEC scope for ship new buildings
The IEE Certificate for ship new buildings consists basically of 2 items which will be
checked upon the MARPOL Annex VI survey and will be confirmed in the certificate.
1) Availability of Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP)
3 The term “safety management system” is well defined in the ISM-Code, Part A, paragraph 1.1.4.

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The SEEMP is mandatory for each new ship. For newbuildings, the IEEC initial survey
will be performed during the newbuilding phase of the ship.
For SEEMP related requirements being necessary for the issuance of the IEEC please
refer to “IEEC scope for ships in service”.
2) Availability of Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)
The EEDI is required only for ship new buildings. The term “new ship” is well defined as a
ship for which the building contract is placed on or after 1 January 2013; or in the absence
of a building contract, the keel of which is layed or which is at a similar stage of
construction on or after 1 July 2013; or the delivery of which is on or after 1 July 2015.
The EEDI is required only for the following ship types of 400 gross tonnage and above:
- Bulk Carrier
- Gas Carrier
- Tanker
- Container Ship
- Refrigerated Cargo Ship
- General Cargo Ship
- Combination Carrier
The attained EEDI value should be lower than the pre-defined reference line for the
chosen ship category. In order to determine the reference line, an exponential regression
analysis has been carried out by plotting the calculated estimated index values against the
deadweight. This method generates a curve out of all available data sets representative for
each individual ship category. The following figure displays the EEDI required reference
lines, applicable for container ships, valid for the respective reduction phase:
g CO2 / (t*nm)
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
EEDI requirement for container vessels
Reference line - 2013 Phase 1 - 2015
Phase 2 - 2020 Phase 3 - 2025
0 50.000 100.000
DWT
150.000 200.000
Figure 1: EEDI reference line for container ships
The EEDI Technical File contains the technical documentation which proves that the
energy efficiency of the ship (= attained EEDI) is below the allowed limit (= required EEDI).
The EEDI Technical File has to be approved by the recognized organization or a
classification society on their behalf.

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In the future the required EEDI shall be reduced stepwise. The future EEDI reduction
factors, cut off limits and implementation phases against the ship specific reference lines
are intended to be as follows:
Table 1: EEDI – reduction factor scheme
*Reduction factor to be linearly interpolated between the two values dependent upon vessel size.
The lower value of the reduction factor is to be applied to the smaller ship size.
The attained as well as the required EEDI do not yet apply to ships which have dieselelectric
propulsion, turbine propulsion or hybrid propulsion systems. However the
introduction of non-conventional propulsion systems and further ship types under the EEDI
regime are considered by the IMO.
IEEC procedure under the EEDI Regime for newbuildings of 400 GT and above
The EEDI related procedures on survey and certification are regulated in “IMO Resolution
MEPC.214 (63) – Guidelines on survey and certification of the Energy Efficiency Design
Index” and “MEPC 64/INF.22 – First version of industry guidelines on calculation and
verification of the Energy Efficiency Design Index”.
The verification stages for IEE Certification can be divided into the application for IEE
certification, the EEDI preliminary verification, the EEDI final verification and the issuance
of the IEEC. The detailed process steps can be found in the flowchart “International
Energy Efficiency Certification – Process Steps”.
Documents to be submitted at design stage
- EEDI Technical File
- NOx Technical File
- Electric Power Table (applicable if PAE is significantly different from the values
computed using the formula in 2.5.6.1 or 2.5.6.2 of the IMO Calculation Guidelines
MEPC.212(63))
- Ship lines and model particulars

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- Verification file of power limitation technical arrangement
(in case of limited propulsion power)
- Power curves
- Quality Management System certification acc. ISO 9001, in case the QSM is not
ISO 9001 certified: a description of the tank test institute (to be submitted prior to
tank tests)
- Gas fuel oil general arrangement plan (only if gas fuel is used as primary fuel)
- Tank Test Plan (to be submitted prior to tank tests)
- Tank Test Report of Tank Test Facility containing requirements as agreed and
contracted
- Ship reference speed vref
Documents to be submitted at the final verification stage
- Programme of sea trial (to be submitted prior to speed trial at sea trial)
- Sea Trial Report (to be submitted after sea trial performance)
- Final stability file (to be submitted after sea trial performance)
- Final power curves and power tables (to be submitted after sea trial performance)
- Revised EEDI Technical File (to be submitted after sea trial performance)
- Ship lines (to be submitted after sea trial performance)
The documents which have to be submitted are also listed in the application forms
“F318FE– Application Form for Preliminary Verification of the EEDI at Design Stage” and
“F318GE– Application Form for Final Verification of the EEDI at Sea Trial”. The application
forms are available on the GL homepage under the item GL-Forms.
1) Application for IEE certification
a) Prior to the survey and certification, the shipowner is asked to submit the application
form F318FE and the requested documents as listed above, see documents to be
submitted at design stage to GL-Head Office.
After the procedure for the tank test is agreed between the submitter and GL, and after
the tank test has been performed, the submitter is obliged to submit the full tank test
reports containing the contracted requirements, to GL-Head Office.
The application Form has to be submitted to GL-Head Office in the time period from
contract date to at least 12 weeks prior to sea trial.
2) EEDI preliminary verification
b) The GL verifier at GL-Head Office verifies and checks the EEDI Technical File as well
as the enclosed documents as listed in application form F318FE. If applicable the
verifier reviews the Electric Power Table, checking if all relevant loads are listed in the
EPT, if reasonable service factors are used and checking the correctness of the PAE
calculation based on the data given in the EPT. Furthermore the verifier reviews and
witnesses the model tank test reports and calculates the attained EEDI as well as the
required EEDI value based on the EEDI Technical File and the model tank tests.
c) The verifier at GL-Head Office issues the Attestation S069 – Report on Preliminary
Verification of EEDI. This document confirms that the preliminary EEDI verification has
been conducted. However, it should be noted that the verifier has only the obligation to
check the existence and correctness of the calculations in accordance to the
guidelines, but not the predicted value by the submitter as such.

3) EEDI final verification
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d) At least 6 weeks prior to the sea trial the shipowner is obliged to submit to GL-Head
Office the application form F318GE for final verification of the EEDI at sea trial and
requested documents as listed above, see documents to be submitted at the final
verification stage.
Prior to the sea trial the following documents should be submitted: A description of the
test procedure/ sea trial programme, the final stability file containing the displacement
table or a copy of the survey report of deadweight, the lightweight certificate and the trim
& stability booklet.
e) The Chief surveyor allocates a GL representative to attend and survey the speed trial
which is conducted under sea trial conditions.
f) A sea trial is conducted under the conditions as specified in IMO Resolution
MEPC.212(63), paragraph 2.2. The GL representative surveys if the speed trial under
sea trial conditions has been carried out in accordance with the guidelines adopted by
the International Maritime Organisation.
The GL representative completes Form 318CE- Speed Trial EEDI, F318EE-EPT (if
applicable) and checks if a ship-specific SEEMP is available on board the ship.
Subsequently he completes the checklist F318DE - MARPOL 73/78 Annex VI Energy
Efficiency Initial Survey.
g) The shipyard modifies and submits the revised EEDI Technical File and the sea trial
reports for final validation. The EEDI Technical File is revised by taking into account the
results of the speed trial (i.e. adjusted power curve, finally determined EEDI capacity).
The verifier at GL- Head Office checks the revised EEDI Technical File to make sure the
content matches the performance results recorded from the shipyard as well as from the
GL representative who attends the speed trial.
h) The GL verifier at GL-Head Office checks the EPT-Form (if applicable). Checking if the
selected units/loads specified in the EPT were observed during the sea trial and
calculating the EEDI reference speed based on the results of the speed trial and the
EEDI conditions. The attained ship-specific EEDI and the required EEDI values are
recalculated by the GL verifier at GL-Head Office based on the modifications in
accordance to the EEDI conditions.
i) The GL verifier issues the Attestation S070 – Report on Final Verification of EEDI.
4) Issuance of IEEC
j) When the ship is delivered, the International Energy Efficiency Certificate is issued by
GL- Head Office.
If a client orders the IEEC Certificate before the entry into force, an ENERGY
EFFICIENCY STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE will be issued instead because no IEE
Certificate can be issued when the regulation is not in force. Once the regulation is in
force, the STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE will be reissued as International Energy
Efficiency Certificate (IEEC).
In case the flag state has not ratified MARPOL Annex VI, the IEEC SoC will be reissued
as IEEC Document of Compliance.

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All necessary document forms to be submitted to GL Head Office will be available online
for download.
The mentioned documents are to be submitted in a complete and timely manner. Only this
will trigger the process of Energy Efficiency certification and provide GL with all information
about the ship.
For further questions, please contact energy.efficiency@gl-group.com.
Or visit “Rules for Classification and Construction, VI Additional Rules and Guidelines,
chapter 13 Energy Efficiency” on the GL homepage.