The Conference,
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The Conference,

 NOTING that resolution 10 of the 1978 Tanker Safety Pollution and Prevention Conference recommended that IMO take the necessary action to amend the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (the 1974 SOLAS Convention), the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the 1978 Protocol relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78), and the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (the 1966 Load Line Convention) with a view to standardizing the periods of validity of the certificates as well as the intervals of surveys required by these Conventions,

 HAVING ADOPTED the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (the 1988 SOLAS Protocol) and the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (the 1988 Load Line Protocol), which introduce, inter alia, the harmonized system of survey and certification under the 1974 SOLAS Convention and the 1966 Load Line Convention,

 RECOGNIZING that the regulations of MARPOL 73/78 and the provisions of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (the IBC Code), the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (the BCH Code) and the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (the IGC Code) need to be amended to harmonize their survey and certification requirements with those of the 1988 SOLAS Protocol and the 1988 Load Line Protocol.

 RECOMMENDS that the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment Protection Committee of IMO take the necessary action:

  • (a) to amend MARPOL 73/78, the IBC Code, the BCH Code and the IGC Code in order to harmonize their survey and certification requirements with those of the 1988 SOLAS Protocol and the 1988 Load Line Protocol:

  • (b) to bring these amendments into force on the same date, or on a date as close as possible to the date on which the 1988 SOLAS Protocol and the 1988 Load Line Protocol enter into force.

Parent topic: Resolution 4 - Implementation of the harmonized system of survey and certification under MARPOL 73/78, the IBC Code, the BCH Code and the IGC Code
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