RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.673(16),
by which the Assembly, at its sixteenth session, adopted the Guidelines
for the transport and handling of limited amounts of hazardous and
noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels (LHNS
Guidelines),
NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee and the
Marine Environment Protection Committee to amend the Guidelines as
may be necessary,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-ninth session, amendments
to the Guidelines proposed by the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation,
at its eleventh session, which were approved by the Committee, at
its seventy-eighth session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Guidelines for the
transport and handling of limited amounts of hazardous and noxious
liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels, the text of
which is set out in the Annex to
the present resolution;
2. DETERMINES that the said amendments should
become effective on 1 January 2007.