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The Assembly,

 RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention of the International Maritime Organization concerning the function of this Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety, the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships, and other matters concerning the effect of shipping on the marine environment,

 HAVING ADOPTED, by resolution A.853(20), amendments to the INF Code on shipboard emergency plans and notification in the event of an incident involving materials subject to the Code,

 RECOGNIZING the need to have a consistent approach to the development of shipboard emergency plans,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the MSC at its sixty-eighth session and by the MEPC at its thirty-ninth session and fortieth session:

  1 ADOPTS the Guidelines for Developing Shipboard Emergency Plans for Ships Carrying Materials subject to the INF Code set out at annex to this resolution; and

  2 URGES Governments, in implementing the provisions referring to this subject in the INF Code, to use the Guidelines set out at annex to this resolution.

Parent topic: IMO Resolution A.854(20) – Guidelines for Developing Shipboard Emergency Plans for Ships Carrying Materials Subject to the INF Code – (Adopted on 27 November 1997)
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