RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.534(13),
by which the Assembly, at its thirteenth session, adopted the Code
of Safety for Special Purpose Ships (SPS Code),
NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee to amend
the Code as may be necessary,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-ninth session, amendments
to the SPS Code proposed by the Sub-Committee
on Flag State Implementation, at its eleventh session, which were
approved by the Committee, at its seventy-eighth session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Code of Safety for
Special Purpose Ships, as amended, the text of which is set out in
the Annex to the present resolution;
2. DETERMINES that the said amendments should
become effective on 1 July 2006.