HAVING ADOPTED the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (the 1988 SOLAS Protocol),
which introduces, inter alia, the revision of chapter I of the International Convention
for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (the 1974 SOLAS Convention), in
order to standardize the periods of validity of certificates and intervals
of surveys required by the 1974 SOLAS Convention and the International
Convention on Load Lines, 1966,
RECOGNIZING that the Parties to the 1988 SOLAS Protocol
will issue certificates under the 1974 SOLAS Convention in the form
prescribed by the 1988 SOLAS Protocol,
1. URGES Governments which are Contracting Governments
to the 1974 SOLAS Convention to become Parties to the 1988 SOLAS Protocol
at the earliest possible time;
2. INVITES Governments which are Contracting Governments
to the 1974 SOLAS Convention but which are not Parties to the 1988
SOLAS Protocol, following entry into force of the latter, to give
to certificates issued under the 1974 SOLAS Convention in the form
prescribed by the 1988 SOLAS Protocol the same recognition as that
given to certificates issued under the 1974 SOLAS Convention.