1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-sixth
session (2 to 13 December 2002), and the Marine Environment Protection
Committee, at its forty-eighth session (7 to 11 October 2002), recognizing
the need for recommendatory provisions applicable to ships operating
in Arctic ice-covered waters, additional to the mandatory and recommendatory
provisions contained in existing IMO instruments, approved Guidelines
for ships operating in Arctic ice-covered waters, as set out in the
annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to bring the
annexed Guidelines to the attention of shipowners, ship designers,
shipbuilders, ship repairers, equipment manufactures and installers
and all other parties concerned with the operation of ships in Arctic
ice-covered waters.