RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.212(VII) by which the Assembly,
at its seventh session, adopted the Code for the Construction and
Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (BCH Code),
which provides safety requirements for chemical tankers supplementary
to the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of
Life at Sea, 1974, as amended,
RECALLING FURTHER resolution MEPC.20(22) by which the Marine
Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted the BCH Code to make
it mandatory under MARPOL 73/78,
NOTING resolution MSC.29(61) by which it adopted the revised
BCH Code,
NOTING ALSO resolution MSC.144(54) by which the MEPC, at
its fifty-fourth session, adopted amendments to the BCH Code,
CONSIDERING that it is highly desirable for the provisions
of the BCH Code which are mandatory under MARPOL
73/78 and recommendatory from a safety standpoint, to remain
identical when adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee
and the Maritime Safety Committee,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-first session, amendments
to the BCH Code proposed by the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and
Gases, at its ninth session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Code for the Construction
and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (BCH Code),
as amended, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present
resolution;
2. DETERMINES that the said amendments should
become effective on 1 August 2007footnote.