1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-seventh
session (28 May to 6 June 2003), with a view to ensuring uniform application
of the Guidelines for the approval of fixed water-based local application
fire-fighting systems (MSC/Circ.913), containing vague wording which
is open to diverging interpretations, approved the unified interpretations
relating to fixed water-based local application fire-extinguishing
systems, set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretations as guidance when applying relevant provisions
of the aforementioned guidelines and to bring them to the attention
of all parties concerned.