RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution MSC.255(84) by which it adopted the Code of the International Standards
and Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine
Casualty or Marine Incident (Casualty Investigation Code), parts I
and II of which have become mandatory under chapter
XI-1 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life
at Sea (SOLAS), 1974 (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"),
NOTING ALSO that the twenty-eighth session of the Assembly
adopted the Guidelines to assist investigators in the implementation
of the Casualty Investigation Code (resolution MSC.255(84)) through resolution
A.1075(28) which revokes resolutions A.849(20) and A.884(21),