RECALLING article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee,
NOTING the International Code for Application of Fire Test
Procedures (FTP Code) and chapter II-2 of the International Convention
for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended, hereinafter
referred to as "the Convention", which made the FTP
Code mandatory under the Convention,
NOTING ALSO resolution MSC.57(67) by which it adopted amendments
to chapter II-2 of the Convention
to make the provisions of the International Code for Application of
Fire Test Procedures (FTP Code) mandatory under
the Convention for ships constructed on or after 1 July 1998,
NOTING FURTHER resolution MSC.97(73) by
which it adopted the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft,
2000 (2000 HSC Code) providing for the
application of fire test procedures for materials used in the construction
of high-speed craft to which that Code applies, in accordance with
the FTP Code,
RECOGNIZING that the continual development of materials
for use in the construction of ships and improvement of marine safety
standards since the adoption of the FTP Code necessitate
the revision of the provisions of the fire test procedures in order
to maintain the highest practical level of safety,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-eighth session, the draft
2010 FTP Code which has been developed following a thorough revision
of the FTP Code,
1 ADOPTS the International Code for Application
of Fire Test Procedures, 2010 (2010 FTP Code),
the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention
to note that the 2010 FTP Code will take
effect on 1 July 2012 upon entry into force of the associated amendments
to chapter II-2 of the Convention;
3 NOTES that under the amendments to chapter II-2 of the Convention, amendments
to the 2010 FTP Code shall be adopted,
brought into force and take effect in accordance with the provisions
of Article VIII of the Convention,
concerning the amendment procedure applicable to the annex to the
Convention other than chapter I.
4 REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the Organization
to transmit certified copies of the present resolution and the text
of the 2010 FTP Code, contained in the
Annex, to all Contracting Governments to the Convention;
5 FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the
Organization to transmit copies of the present resolution and the
text of the Code contained in the Annex to all Members of the Organization
which are not Contracting Governments to the SOLAS Convention.