WHEEL MARK

Polimarine is authorized technical bureau for Marine Equipment Directive 2014/90/EU

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WHEEL MARK (MED)

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Polimarine is authorized certification technical bureau for MED. Specific materials and equipment intended to be used on board ships shall be in compliance with the requirements of directive 2014/90/EU on marine equipment, widely known as “MED”.
Whilst most EC directives require the certified products to carry the "CE" mark, products certified under the MED shall be affixed with the “Wheel Mark” together with the unique ID number of the certifying Notified Body and be accompanied by an EC
Declaration of Conformity issued by the respective manufacturers. MED covers types of marine equipment that fall under the following International Conventions developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO):

  • Life-saving appliances (SOLAS III)
  • Marine pollution prevention equipment (MARPOL)
  • Fire protection equipment (SOLAS II-2)
  • Navigation equipment (SOLAS V)
  • Radio-communication equipment (SOLAS IV)
  • COLREG 72 - equipment
  • SOLAS II-1 – equipment

Polimarine is qualified and Authorized to certify for following equipment’s.

  • Life-saving appliances
  • MED/1.1 — Lifebuoys
  • MED/1.2a —Position-indicating lights for life-saving appliances:
  • (a) for survival craft and rescue boats,
  • MED/1.2b — Position -indicating lights for life-saving appliances (b) for lifebuoys,
  • MED/1/1.2c Position -indicating lights for life-saving appliances: (c) for lifejackets.
  • MED/1.3 — Lifebuoys self-activating smoke signals
  • MED/1.4 — Lifejackets
  • MED/1.5a — Immersion suits and anti-exposure suits designed to be worn in conjunction WITH a lifejacket (a) immersion suit without inherent insulation
  • MED/1.5b —Immersion suits and anti- exposure suits designed to be worn in conjunction WITH a lifejacket (b)immersion suit with inherent insulation
  • MED/1.5c —Immersion suits and anti- exposure suits designed to be worn in conjunction WITH a lifejacket (c) anti exposure suits.
  • MED/1.6a —Immersion suits and anti- exposure suits designed to be worn WITHOUT a lifejacket (a) immersion suit without inherent insulation
  • MED/1.6b —Immersion suits and anti- exposure suits designed to be worn WITHOUT a lifejacket (b)immersion suit with inherent insulation
  • MED/1.6a Immersion suits and anti-exposure suits designed to be worn WITHOUT a lifejacket a )immersion suit without inherent insulation,
  • MED/1.6b — Immersion suits and anti-exposure suits designed to be worn WITHOUT a lifejacket b) immersion suit with inherent insulation,
  • MED/1.6c — Immersion suits and anti-exposure suits designed to be worn WITHOUT a lifejacket c) anti exposure suits.
  • MED/1.7 — Thermal protective aids
  • MED/1.9 — Hand flares (pyrotechnics)
  • MED/1.10 —Buoyant smoke signals (pyrotechnics)
  • MED/1.11 — Line-throwing appliances
  • MED/1.12 — Inflatable liferafts
  • MED/1.13 — Rigid liferafts
  • MED/1.14 — Automatically self-righting liferafts
  • MED/1.15 — Canopied reversible liferafts
  • MED/1.16 — Float-free arrangements for liferafts (hydrostatic release units)
  • MED/1.17a — Lifeboats: (a) Davit-launched lifeboats: — partially enclosed, — totally enclosed.
  • MED/1.17b — Lifeboats: (b) Free-fall lifeboats.
  • MED/1.18 — Rigid rescue boats
  • MED/1.19 — Inflated rescue boats
  • MED/1.20a — Fast rescue boats: (a) inflated.
  • MED/1.20b — Fast rescue boats: (b) rigid,
  • MED/1.20c — Fast rescue boats: (c) rigid-inflated.
  • MED/1.21 — Launching appliances using falls (davits)
  • MED/1.23 — Launching appliances for free-fall lifeboats
  • MED/1.24 — Liferaft launching appliances (Davits)
  • MED/1.25 —Fast rescue boat launching appliances (Davits)
  • MED/1.26a — Release mechanism for (a) Lifeboats and rescue boats (Launched by a fall or falls), MED/1.26b — Release mechanism for (b) Liferafts (Launched by a fall or falls),
  • MED/1.26c — Release mechanism for (c) Free fall lifeboats.
  • MED/1.27 — Marine evacuation systems
  • MED/1.28 — Means of rescue
  • MED/1.29 — Embarkation ladders
  • MED/1.30 — Retro-reflective materials
  • MED/1.33 — Radar reflector for lifeboats and rescue boats (passive)
  • MED/1.36 —Lifeboat/rescue boat propulsion engine
  • MED/1.37 — Rescue boat propulsion engine — outboard motor
  • MED/1.38 — Searchlights for use in lifeboats and rescue boats
  • MED/1.39 — Open reversible liferafts
  • MED/1.41a —Winches for survival craft and rescue boats: (a) davit launched lifeboats
  • MED/1.41b —Winches for survival craft and rescue boats: (b) free-fall lifeboats,
  • MED/1.41c —Winches for survival craft and rescue boats: (c) liferafts
  • MED/1.41d —Winches for survival craft and rescue boats: (d) rescue boats
  • MED/1.41e —Winches for survival craft and rescue boats: (e) fast rescue boats.
  • MED/1.43 — Rigid/inflated rescue boats
  • Marine pollution prevention
  • MED/2.1 Oil-filtering equipment (for an oil content of the effluent not exceeding 15 p.p.m.)
  • MED/2.2 Oil/water interface detectors
  • MED/2.3 Oil-content meters
  • MED/2.5 Oil discharge monitoring and control system for oil tankers
  • MED/2.6 Sewage systems
  • MED/2.7 Shipboard incinerators
  • MED/2.7 Shipboard incinerators (Incinerator plants with capacities greater than 1,500 kW and up to 4,000 kW)
  • MED/2.8 NOx analyser for use on board as per NOx Technical Code 2008
  • MED/2.10 On board exhaust gas cleaning systems
  • Life-saving appliances
  • MED/3.1 Primary decks covering
  • MED/3.2 Portable fire extinguishers
  • MED/3.3 a) Fire-fighter’s outfit: protective clothing (close proximity clothing) — Protective non reflective clothing for fire fighting
  • MED/3.3 b) Fire-fighter’s outfit: protective clothing (close proximity clothing) — Protective clothing for firefighting: Reflective clothing for specialized fire-fighting
  • MED/3.3 Fire-fighter’s outfit: protective clothing (close proximity clothing) — Protective clothing for firefighting: Protective clothing with a reflective outer surface
  • MED/3.4 Fire-fighter’s outfit: boots
  • MED/3.5 Fire-fighter’s outfit: gloves
  • MED/3.6 Fire-fighter’s outfit: helmet
  • MED/3.5 Fire-fighter’s outfit: gloves
  • MED/3.6 Fire-fighter’s outfit: helmet
  • MED/3.7 Self-contained compressed-air-operated breathing apparatus Note: For use in accidents involving dangerous goods a positive pressure type mask is required.
  • MED/3.8 Compressed air line breathing apparatus
  • MED/3.9 Sprinkler systems components for accommodation spaces, service spaces and control stations equivalent to that referred to in SOLAS 74 Reg. II-2/12 (limited to nozzles and their performance). (Nozzles for fixed sprinkler systems, for high speed craft (HSC) are included under this item) (Note: For products used as spare parts of existing installations the relevant standards at the time of placing on board, can still be applied).
  • MED/3.10 — Nozzles for fixed pressure water spraying fire extinguishing systems for machinery spaces and cargo pump-rooms (Note: For products used as spare parts of existing installations the relevant standards at the time of placing on board, can still be applied).
  • MED/3.11a ‘A’ & ‘B’ Class divisions fire integrity (a) ‘A’ class divisions,
  • MED/3.11a ‘A’ & ‘B’ Class divisions fire integrity (a) ‘A’ class divisions, (NEW ROW)
  • MED/3.11b ‘A’ & ‘B’ Class divisions fire integrity (b) ‘B’ class divisions.
  • MED/3.11b ‘A’ & ‘B’ Class divisions fire integrity (b) ‘B’ class divisions. (NEW ROW) Note: Excludes restricted B-Class divisions/doors.
  • MED/3.12 Devices to prevent the passage of flame into the cargo tanks in tankers
  • MED/3.12 Devices to prevent the passage of flame into the cargo tanks in tankers
  • MED/3.13 Non-combustible materials
  • MED/3.15a Materials other than steel for pipes conveying oil or fuel oil — plastic pipes and fittings
  • MED/3.15b Materials other than steel for pipes conveying oil or fuel oil — valves
  • MED/3.15c Materials other than steel for pipes conveying oil or fuel oil (c)flexible pipe assemblies and compensators
  • MED/3.15c Materials other than steel for pipes conveying oil or fuel oil —flexible pipe assemblies and compensators
  • MED/3.15d Materials other than steel for pipes conveying oil or fuel oil —metallic pipe components with resilient and elastomeric seals
  • MED/3.16 Fire Doors Note: Restricted B-Class divisions including door are not covered by the EU-USA Mutual Recognition Agreement. Refer to MarED Group of Notified Bodies’ Approved Recommendation 071.
  • MED/3.17 Fire door control systems components. Note: When the term ‘system components’ is used it may be that a single component, a group of components or a whole system needs to be tested to ensure that the international requirements are fulfilled.
  • MED/3.18a Surface materials and floor coverings with low flame-spread characteristics — decorative veneers,
  • MED/3.18b Surface materials and floor coverings with low flame-spread characteristics — paint systems, MED/3.18c Surface materials and floor coverings with low flame-spread characteristics — floor coverings. MED/3.18d Surface materials and floor coverings with low flame-spread characteristics — pipe insulation covers, MED/3.18e Surface materials and floor coverings with low flame-spread characteristics — adhesives used in the construction of ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’ class divisions,
  • MED/3.18f Surface materials and floor coverings with low flame-spread characteristics — combustible ducts membrane
  • MED/3.19 Draperies, curtains and other suspended textile materials and films
  • MED/3.20 — Upholstered furniture
  • MED/3.21 Bedding components
  • MED/3.22 — Fire dampers
  • MED/3.25 ‘A’ and ‘B’ class fire proof windows and side scuttles
  • MED/3.26a Penetrations through ‘A’ class divisions — electric cable transits
  • MED/3.26b Penetrations through ‘A’ class divisions — pipe, duct, trunk, etc. penetrations
  • MED/3.27a Penetrations through ‘B’ class divisions — electric cable transits,
  • MED/3.27b Penetrations through ‘B’ class divisions — pipe, duct, trunk, etc. penetrations.
  • MED/3.28 Sprinkler systems (limited to sprinkler heads). (Nozzles for fixed sprinkler systems, for high speed craft (HSC) are included under this item) (Note: For products used as spare parts of existing installations the relevant standards at the time of placing on board, can still be applied).
  • MED/3.29 Fire-fighting hoses (a) Non-percolating lay flat firefighting hoses (range of the inside diameter from 25 mm to 52 mm)
  • MED/3.30 Portable oxygen analysis and gas detection equipment
  • MED/3.32 Fire restricting materials (except furniture) for high speed craft
  • MED/3.33 Fire restricting materials for furniture for high speed craft
  • MED/3.34 Fire resisting divisions for high speed craft
  • MED/3.35 Fire doors on high speed craft
  • MED/3.36 Fire dampers on high speed craft
  • MED/3.37a Penetrations through fire resisting divisions on high speed craft — electric cable transits,
  • MED/3.37b Penetrations through fire resisting divisions on high speed craft — pipe, duct, trunk etc. penetrations MED/3.38 —Portable fire-extinguishing equipment for lifeboats and rescue boats
  • MED/3.39 Nozzles for equivalent water-mist fire extinguishing systems for machinery spaces and cargo pump rooms
  • MED/3.40 Low-location lighting systems (components only)
  • MED/3.41 Emergency escape breathing devices (EEBD)
  • MED/3.42 Inert gas systems components
  • MED/3.42 Inert gas system components
  • MED/3.43 Nozzles for deep fat cooking equipment fire extinguishing systems (automatic or manual type).
  • MED/3.44 Fire-fighters outfit – lifeline
  • MED/3.44 Fire-fighters outfit – lifeline
  • MED/3.45 Equivalent fixed gas fire extinguishing systems components (extinguishing Medium, head valves and nozzles) for machinery spaces and cargo pump rooms
  • MED/3.46 Equivalent fixed gas fire extinguishing systems for machinery spaces (aerosol systems)
  • MED/3.47 Concentrate for fixed high expansion foam fire extinguishing systems for machinery spaces and cargo pump rooms.
  • MED/3.48 Fixed water based local application fire-fighting systems components for use in category A machinery spaces
  • MED/3.49a Fixed water-based fire-fighting systems for roro spaces, vehicle spaces and special category spaces v
  • MED/3.51a Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Control and indicating equipment
  • MED/3.51b Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Power supply equipment,
  • MED/3.51c Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Heat detectors — Point detectors
  • MED/3.51d Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Smoke detectors: Point detectors using scattered light, transmitted light or ionization,
  • MED/3.51e Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Flame detectors: Point detectors,
  • MED/3.51f Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Manual call points,
  • MED/3.51 g Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Short circuit isolators
  • MED/3.51 h Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: — Input/output devices,
  • MED/3.51i Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems components for control stations, service spaces, accommodation spaces, cabin balconies, machinery spaces and unattended machinery spaces: Cables.
  • MED/3.52 Non-portable and transportable fire extinguishers
  • MED/3.53 Fire alarm devices — Sounders
  • MED/3.54 Fixed oxygen analysis and gas detection equipment
  • MED/3.55 Dual purpose type nozzles (spray/jet type)
  • MED/3.56 Fixed firefighting hose systems Hose reels with semi-rigid hose
  • MED/3.57 MEDium Expansion Foam Fire Extinguishing Systems components — Fixed Deck Foam for Tankers MED/3.58 Fixed Low Expansion Foam Fire Extinguishing Systems Components for Machinery Spaces and Tanker Deck Protection.
  • MED/3.59 Expansion Foam for Fixed Fire Extinguishing Systems for Chemical Tankers
  • MED/3.60 — Nozzles for fixed pressure water- spraying fire-extinguishing systems for cabin balconies MED/3.61a —Inside air high expansion foam systems for the protection of machinery spaces, cargo pump rooms, vehicle and ro-ro spaces, special category spaces and cargo spaces.
  • MED/3.61b — Outside air high expansion foam systems for the protection of machinery spaces, cargo pump rooms, vehicle and ro-ro spaces, special category spaces and cargo spaces.
  • MED/3.62 Dry chemical powder extinguishing systems
  • MED/3.63 Sample extraction smoke detection systems components
  • MED/3.64 C class divisions
  • MED/3.65 Fixed hydrocarbon gas detection system
  • MED/3.66 Evacuation guidance systems used as an alternative to low-location lighting systems
  • MED/3.67 Helicopter facility foam fire-fighting appliances
  • MED/3.68 Galley Exhaust Duct Fixed Fire Extinguishing Systems components
  • MED/3.69 Mobile water monitor for ships constructed on or after 1 January 2016 designed to carry five or more tiers of containers on or above the weather deck
  • MED/3.70 Fire-fighting hoses (Semi-rigid hoses for fixed systems)
  • MED/3.71 Fixed firefighting hose systems — Hose systems with lay-flat hose
  1. Navigation equipment
  • MED/4.1 Magnetic compass Class A for ships
  • MED/4.2 Transmitting heading device THD (magnetic method)
  • MED/4.3 Gyro compass
  • MED/4.6 Echo-sounding equipment
  • MED/4.7 Speed and distance measuring equipment (SDME)
  • MED/4.9 Rate-of-turn indicator
  • MED/4.14 GPS equipment
  • MED/4.15 GLONASS equipment
  • MED/4.16 Heading control system (HCS)
  • MED/4.18 Search and rescue locating devices (SRLD): 9 GHz SAR transponder (SART)
  • MED/4.20 Rudder angle indicator
  • MED/4.21 Propeller revolution indicator
  • MED/4.22 Pitch indicator
  • MED/4.23 Magnetic compass Class B for lifeboats and rescue boats
  • MED/4.29 Voyage data recorder (VDR)
  • MED/4.30 Electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) with backup, and raster chart display system (RCDS)
  • MED/4.31 Gyro compass for high-speed craft
  • MED/4.32 Universal automatic identification system equipment (AIS)
  • MED/4.33 Track control system (working at ship’s speed from minimum manoeuvring speed up to 30 knots)
  • MED/4.34 Radar equipment CAT 1
  • MED/4.35 Radar equipment CAT 2
  • MED/4.36 Radar equipment CAT 3
  • MED/4.37 Radar equipment for high speed craft applications (CAT 1H and CAT 2H)
  • MED/4.38a Radar equipment approved with a chart option, namely: CAT 1C,
  • MED/4.38b Radar equipment approved with a chart option, namely: CAT 2C,
  • MED/4.38c Radar equipment for high speed craft applications approved with a chart option, namely: CAT 1HC
  • MED/4.38d Radar equipment for high speed craft applications approved with a chart option, namely: CAT 2HC
  • MED/4.39 Radar reflector — passive type
  • MED/4.40 Heading control system for high speed craft
  • MED/4.41 Transmitting heading device THD (GNSS method)
  • MED/4.42 Searchlight for high speed craft
  • MED/4.43 Night vision equipment for high speed craft
  • MED/4.44 Differential beacon receiver for DGPS and DGLONASS Equipment
  • MED/4.46 Transmitting heading device THD (Gyroscopic method)
  • MED/4.47 Simplified voyage data recorder (S- VDR)
  • MED/4.49 Pilot ladder
  • MED/4.50 DGPS Equipment
  • MED/4.51 DGLONASS Equipment
  • MED/4.52 Daylight signalling lamp
  • MED/4.53 Radar target enhancer
  • MED/4.54 Compass Bearing Device
  • MED/4.55 Search and rescue locating devices (SRLD): AIS SART equipment
  • MED/4.56 Galileo Equipment
  • MED/4.57 Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS)
  • MED/4.58 Sound reception system
  • MED/4.59 Integrated navigation system
  1. Radio-communication equipment
  • MED/5.1 VHF radio capable of transmitting and receiving DSC and radiotelephony
  • MED/5.2 VHF DSC watch-keeping receiver
  • MED/5.3 NAVTEX receiver
  • MED/5.4 EGC receiver
  • MED/5.5 HF marine safety information (MSI) equipment (HF NBDP receiver)
  • MED/5.6 406 MHz EPIRB (COSPAS-SARSAT)
  • MED/5.10 MF radio capable of transmitting and receiving DSC and radiotelephony
  • MED/5.11 MF DSC watch-keeping receiver
  • MED/5.13 Inmarsat-C SES
  • MED/5.14 MF/HF radio capable of transmitting and receiving DSC, NBDP and radiotelephony
  • MED/5.15 MF/HF DSC scanning watch keeping receiver
  • MED/5.17 Portable survival craft two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus
  • MED/5.18 Fixed survival craft two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus
  • MED/5.19 Inmarsat-F77
  • MED/5.20 Fire-fighter’s two-way radiotelephone apparatus
  • MED/5.21 Integrated communication system (ICS)
  1. Equipment required under COLREG 72
  • MED/6.1 Navigation lights
  1. Other safety equipment
  • MED/7.1 Self-contained compressed-air-operated breathing apparatus for entry and work in gas filled space
  1. Equipment under SOLAS Chapter II-1
  • MED/8.1 — Water level detectors