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The Assembly

 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 and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,

 RECALLING ALSO that, by resolution A.830(19), it adopted the Code on Alarms and Indicators, 1995, incorporating therein provisions on alarms and indicators contained in respective IMO instruments,

 RECOGNIZING the need to further update the provisions of the Code, thereby ensuring compliance with the requirements of the IMO instruments which have been adopted and/or amended since the Code was adopted and, thus, eliminate contradictions, ambiguities and unnecessary redundancies,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its eighty-sixth session and the Marine Environment Protection Committee at its fifty-ninth session,

  1. ADOPTS the Code on Alerts and Indicators, 2009, set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  2. RECOMMENDS Governments to:

  • (a) take appropriate action to implement the Code; and

  • (b) use the Code as an international safety standard for designing alarms and indicators for ships', ships equipment and machinery;

  3. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment Protection Committee to keep the Code under review and update it as necessary;

  4. REVOKES resolution A.830(19).


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