Your examiner asks: "What documentation does Annex V require on board, and at what ship sizes?"

A. Ships of 100 GT and above, ships certified to carry 15+ persons, and fixed/floating platforms must carry a Garbage Management Plan; ships of 400 GT+ (or certified for 15+ persons) on international voyages must also maintain a Garbage Record Book recording each discharge or incineration; placards displaying the discharge requirements must be displayed for ships of 12 metres or more in length, informing crew and passengers of disposal requirements.

B. Garbage Record Book requirements apply uniformly to all vessels regardless of size, with no tonnage or persons-carried threshold.

C. A Garbage Management Plan is required only for vessels carrying passengers; cargo-only vessels of any size are exempt.

D. Placards are voluntary signage with no minimum-length threshold specified anywhere in Annex V.

A. Annex IV does designate Special Areas (e.g. the Baltic Sea) where stricter sewage discharge requirements apply — generally requiring treatment to a defined effluent standard or retention, rather than relying on the general 12 nm/comminution provisions that apply elsewhere.

B. Annex IV has no concept of Special Areas at all; only Annexes I and V recognise them.

C. In a Special Area, sewage discharge rules are relaxed because of the higher population density requiring more frequent disposal.

D. Special Area status under Annex IV applies only to passenger ships, not cargo ships.

A. Annex V categorises garbage into groups including plastics, food wastes, domestic wastes, cooking oil, incinerator ash, operational wastes, animal carcasses, fishing gear, and e-waste — each with its own discharge restrictions; critically, the discharge of plastics into the sea is prohibited everywhere, with no exceptions.

B. Annex V recognises only two categories: hazardous and non-hazardous, with identical discharge rules applied to both.

C. Annex V categorisation applies only to passenger ships; cargo ships are exempt from garbage categorisation.

D. Cooking oil is not covered by Annex V and may be discharged freely as it is considered a food byproduct, not garbage.