RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.212(VII) by which the Assembly, at its seventh session,
adopted the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous
Chemicals in Bulk (BCH Code), which provides safety requirements for
chemical tankers supplementary to the provisions of the International Convention for
the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended,
RECALLING FURTHER resolution MEPC.20(22), by which the Marine Environment Protection
Committee (MEPC) adopted the BCH Code to make it mandatory under MARPOL,
NOTING resolution MSC.29(61), by which, at its sixty-first session, it adopted the
revised BCH Code,
NOTING ALSO resolutions MSC.460(101) and MEPC.318(74), respectively, by which it, and
MEPC, adopted corresponding amendments to the International Code for the
Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code),
CONSIDERING that it is highly desirable for the provisions of the BCH Code, which are
mandatory under MARPOL and recommendatory from a safety standpoint, to remain
identical when adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the
Maritime Safety Committee,
HAVING CONSIDERED, amendments to the BCH Code approved by the Committee at its 100th
session,
RECOGNIZING the need to bring the approved amendments to the BCH Code into force on
the date on which corresponding amendment to the IBC Code enters into force,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying
Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk, as amended, the text of which is set out in the annex
to the present resolution;
2 DETERMINES that said amendments should become effective on 1 January 2021 upon
acceptance and entry into force of the corresponding amendment to the IBC Code,
adopted by resolution MSC.460(101).