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