The Maritime Safety Committee,
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The Maritime Safety Committee,

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.658(16), whereby the Assembly promulgated the Recommendation on the use and fitting of retro-reflective materials on life-saving appliances and the Technical specification for retro-reflective materials for use on life-saving appliances and requested the Maritime Safety Committee to keep this recommendation under review and to report as necessary to the Assembly,

RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly, at its thirty-first session, invited the Maritime Safety Committee to consider proposals to amend resolution A.658(16), with a view to facilitating the consistent and global implementation of the provisions regarding accelerated weather testing and to reissue a revised Recommendation as an MSC resolution, given its technical nature and in order to facilitate future revisions,

MINDFUL of resolution A.886(21), by which the Assembly resolved that the functions of adopting performance standards and technical specifications, as well as amendments thereto, should be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee on behalf of the Organization,

CONSIDERING that under the provisions of paragraph 1.2.2.7 of the LSA Code life-saving appliances shall be fitted with retro-reflective material where it will assist in detection and in accordance with the recommendations of the Organization,

1 ADOPTS the Revised recommendation on the use and fitting of retro-reflective materials on life-saving appliances and the Technical specification for retro-reflective materials for use on life-saving appliances, set out in annexes 1 and 2, respectively, to the present resolution;

2 RECOMMENDS Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended, to make arrangements to ensure that life-saving appliances are fitted with retro-reflective materials in the manner set out in annex 1 to the present resolution or in such other manner as is considered by the Administration to be substantially equivalent;

3 RECOMMENDS that the Technical specification for retro-reflective materials for use on life-saving appliances set out in annex 2 to the present resolution be considered by Administrations as a standard for retro-reflective materials, the application of which will contribute to keeping life-saving appliances at the high level of quality required;

4 AGREES that the Administration may accept life-saving appliances already fitted with retro-reflective materials in accordance with resolution A.658(16);

5 INVITES the Assembly to revoke resolution A.658(16) and endorse the action taken by the Maritime Safety Committee.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.481(102) - Revised Recommendation on the Use and Fitting of Retro-Reflective Materials on Life-Saving Appliances - (adopted on 9 November 2020)
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