RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
NOTING the adoption by the Committee of resolution MSC.193(79) on the Code of Safe
Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes, 2004,
RECOGNIZING the need to provide a mandatory application
of the agreed international standards for the carriage of solid bulk
cargoes by sea,
NOTING ALSO resolution MSC.269(85) by which it adopted amendments
to chapters VI and VII of the International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 1974, as amended (hereinafter referred to as
“the Convention”), to make the provisions of the International
Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code mandatory
under the Convention,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-fifth session, the text
of the proposed International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code,
1. ADOPTS the International Maritime Solid Bulk
Cargoes (IMSBC) Code, the text of which is
set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2. NOTES that, under the aforementioned amendments
to chapter VI of the Convention, future amendments to the IMSBC Code shall be adopted, brought into force
and shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of article
VIII of the Convention concerning the amendments procedures applicable
to the Annex to the Convention other than chapter I thereof;
3. INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention
to note that the IMSBC Code will take effect
on 1 January 2011 upon entry into force of amendments to chapters
VI and VII of the Convention;
4. AGREES that Contracting Governments to the
Convention may apply the IMSBC Code in whole
or in part on a voluntary basis as from 1 January 2009;
5. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit
certified copies of this resolution and its annex to all Contracting
Governments to the Convention;
6. FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit
copies of this resolution and its annex to all Members of the Organization
which are not Contracting Governments to the Convention;