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 FURTHER that it adopted, by resolution A.564(14),
the Revised Recommendation on Fire Test Procedures for Surface Flammability
of Bulkhead, Ceiling and Deck Finish Materials, with reference to
the term "low flame spread" in Regulations
11-2/3.8, 11-2/34.3 and 11-2/49.1 of the International Convention
for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended,
RECOGNIZING the need to improve these test procedures in
the light of experience gained,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its fifty-seventh session,
1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Improved Fire
Test Procedures for Surface Flammability of Bulkhead, Ceiling and
Deck Finish Materials, the text of which is annexed to the present
resolution and which supersedes the Revised Recommendation annexed
to resolution A.564(14);
2. RECOMMENDS Governments concerned to apply the
Recommendation on Improved Fire Test Procedures set out in the Annex,
in lieu of the Revised Recommendation as annexed to resolution A.564(14)
in conjunction with the guidelines on the evaluation of fire hazard
properties of materials set out in resolution A.166(ES.IV).