NOTING Article 16(i) of the Convention for the Inter-Governmental
Maritime Consultative Organization concerning the functions of the
Assembly,
NOTING ALSO Recommendation 7 of the International Conference
on Safety of Life at Sea, 1960, concerning intact stability of passenger
ships, cargo ships and fishing vessels,
RECALLING Resolution A.168(ES.IV) concerning the Recommendation
on Intact Stability of Fishing Vessels,
RECOGNIZING the need to provide internationally a simple
stability criterion for small fishing vessels for which no stability
data or lines drawings are available,
HAVING CONSIDERED the Recommendation by the Maritime Safety
Committee at its twenty-second session,
ADOPTS the Recommendation on an Interim Simplified Stability
Criterion for Decked Fishing Vessels under 30 metres in Length, the
text of which appears at Annex to this Resolution,
INVITES all governments concerned to take steps to give
effect to the Recommendation as soon as possible,
REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to continue study
on the subject,
AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee to amend the Recommendation
if necessary in the light of such studies.