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13.—(1) Treatment must ensure that the concentrations of any viable organisms and indicator microbes in any ballast water or sediments discharged into the sea are less than—
(a)10 viable organisms per cubic metre for large organisms;
(b)10 viable organisms per millilitre for small organisms;
(c)one colony-forming unit of toxicogenic Vibrio cholerae (O1 and O139) per 100 millilitres or less than one colony-forming unit per gram (wet weight) of zooplankton samples;
(d)250 colony-forming units of Escherichia coli per 100 millilitres; and
(e)100 colony-forming units of Intestinal Enterococci per 100 millilitres.
(2) In this regulation—
(a)“large organism” means an organism equal to or greater than 50 micrometres in minimum dimension;
(b)“small organism” means an organism equal to or greater than 10 micrometres and less than 50 micrometres in minimum dimension; and
(c)“viable organism” means organisms that have the ability to successfully generate new individuals in order to reproduce the species.
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