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The Maritime Safety Committee

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-eighth session (28 May to 6 June 1997), noted that the 1995 SOLAS Conference, having adopted amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning safety of ro-ro passenger ships, adopted Conference resolution 7 - Development of requirements, guidelines and performance standards, whereby the Committee was requested to develop relevant requirements, guidelines and performance standards to assist the implementation of the amendments adopted by the Conference.

  2 The Committee, having considered recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment, at its fortieth session, and recommendations made by the Working Group on Formal Safety Assessment at MSC 70, approved the Recommendation on helicopter landing areas on ro-ro passenger ships, set out in the annex.

  3 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed recommendation to the attention of those concerned and use the provisions contained therein, as appropriate, in conjunction with the relevant requirements of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.895 – Recommendation on Helicopter Landing Areas on Ro-Ro Passenger Ships – (Adopted on 4 February 1999)
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