The annex of this document is consolidated into Resolution A.753(18)
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.753(18), by which the Assembly, at its
eighteenth session, adopted Guidelines for the application of plastic pipes on
ships, to assist maritime Administrations to determine, in a rational and uniform
manner, the permitted applications of such materials,
NOTING that the Assembly requested the Committee to keep the guidelines
under review and amend them as necessary,
RECOGNIZING that the continual development of plastic materials for use
on ships and improvement of marine safety standards since the adoption of resolutions A.753(18) and MSC.313(88) necessitates the periodic revision of the
provisions of the Guidelines for the application of plastic pipes on ships in
order to take into account technological developments and maintain the highest
practical level of safety,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its [ninety-fifth session (3 to 12 June 2015)],
amendments to the Guidelines for the application of plastic pipes on ships,
proposed by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction, at its second
session,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the guidelines for the application of
plastic pipes on ships (resolution A.753(18)), as amended by MSC.313(88), the text of which is set out in the annex to the
present resolution; and
2 INVITES Governments to apply the annexed amendments when
considering the use of plastic piping on board ships flying the flag of their
State.