RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.473(XII) which was adopted to
provide an interim solution for the requirements of inert gas systems
applicable to chemical tankers carrying petroleum products, pending
the possible development of final requirements applicable to chemical
tankers carrying all flammable cargoes,
RECOGNIZING that the development of such requirements is
not needed on the basis of results of scientific studies undertaken
by industry, but that the extension of the regulation in resolution
A.473(XII) to cover the carriage of petroleum and other liquid products
would meet the purpose,
NOTING that Regulation II-2/60 of
the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (1974
SOLAS Convention) as amended requires inter alia new
and existing tankers of a certain size, including chemical tankers,
when carrying petroleum products, to be fitted with a fixed inert
gas system by specific dates,
NOTING FURTHER that the draft amendment to Regulation II-2/55.5 of the 1974 SOLAS
Convention as amended (resolution A.566(14)) exempts certain chemical
tankers and gas carriers carrying flammable products from the requirements
for inert gas systems of Regulation II-2/60 of
that Convention under certain conditions,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its fifty-first session,
1. ADOPTS the Regulation for Inert Gas Systems
on Chemical Tankers set out in the Annex to the present resolution,
which supersedes resolution A.473(XII);
2. INVITES Governments to apply the above Regulation
to chemical tankers for the purpose of the implementation of the draft
amendment to Regulation II-2/55.5.