RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.862(20),
by which the Assembly, at its twentieth session, adopted the Code
of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers (BLU Code),
NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee to keep
this Code under review and amend it as may
be necessary,
CONSIDERING that the application of the BLU
Code should be extended to ships carrying grain,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-second session, amendments
to the BLU Code prepared by the Sub-Committee
on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers, at its eleventh
session,
2 DETERMINES that the above-said amendments should
become effective on 1 January 2007.