Regulation (EC) No 417/2002 is hereby amended as follows:
1.Article 3(1) shall be replaced by the following: "1. 'Marpol 73/78' means the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto, in their up-to-date versions."
2.In Article 10(1) shall be replaced by the following: "1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) created by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of 5 November 2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS)(29)."
3.The following subparagraph shall be added to Article 11:"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."