1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-second
session (17 to 26 May 2000), approved, with a view to ensuring uniform
application of the fire test provisions of the FTP Code containing
vague wording which is open to diverging interpretations, unified
interpretations prepared by the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection,
at its forty-fourth session, as set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
interpretations as guidance when applying relevant provisions of the
FTP Code for the testing of new materials tested on or after 26 May
2000, in order to fulfill the requirements of the 1974 SOLAS Convention,
and to bring the interpretations to the attention of all parties concerned.