The annex of this document has been consolidated into 2009
MODU Code
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO that the Assembly, when adopting resolution A.1023(26) on the Code for the Construction and Equipment of
Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 2009 (2009
MODU Code), authorized the Committee to amend the 2009
MODU Code, as appropriate, taking into consideration developments in
design and technology, in consultation with appropriate organizations,
RECOGNIZING that these requirements and provisions are very similar to the SOLAS requirements and that some of them, being applied to mobile
offshore units, may lead to potentially hazardous situations, due to the fact that
they have been developed on the basis of typical operations for conventional ships,
RECOGNIZING FURTHER the tragic loss of life and lessons learned from the explosion,
fire, and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon in
the Gulf of Mexico, which occurred from 20 to 22 April 2010,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-eighth session, the recommendation made by the
Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment, at its fourth session,
1 ADOPTS, the amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile
Offshore Drilling Units, 2009 (2009
MODU Code), as set out in the annex to the present resolution, for mobile
offshore drilling units, the keels of which are laid or which are at a similar stage
of construction on or after 1 January 2020;
2 INVITES Member States concerned to take appropriate action to give effect to these
amendments.