The Commission may amend the references in the Articles of this Regulation to the regulationsRegulations of Annex I ofto MARPOL 73/7873/78, andas well as to Resolutions MEPC 111(50) and MEPC Resolution 94(46) as amended by MEPC ResolutionResolutions 99(48) and MEPC Resolution 112(50) shall, if appropriate, be amended in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 10(2),112(50), in order to bringalign the references into line with amendments to thesethose regulationsRegulations and resolutionsResolutions adopted by the IMO, in so far as such amendments do not broaden the scope of this Regulation. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 10(2).
The amendments to the international instrument referred to in Article 3(1) may be excluded from the scope of this Regulation, pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002.