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Scope and Application

This Guide has been developed with the objective of promoting an environmentally focused design, construction, and operation of ABS-classed vessels. The requirements specified in this Guide are additional to all other relevant requirements of ABS Rules and Guides. This Guide identifies a foundational level which establishes that a vessel complies with international environmental regulations and associated ABS Rules or Guides which are aimed at enhancing environmental protection. In addition, it establishes standards for a higher level of environmental protection that can be achieved through compliance with more stringent criteria related to design characteristics, management and support systems, sea discharges, and air discharges.

Vessels designed, constructed, and operated in compliance with the foundational requirements of this Guide may be assigned a class notation ENVIRO, Environmental Protection. Vessels in compliance with the higher level requirements of this Guide may be assigned a class notation ENVIRO+, Environmental Protection Plus.