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The Assembly

 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.


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