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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-fourth session (30 May to 8 June 2001), noted that paragraph 4.4.1.4 of the International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code as well as regulation VII/17 of the Torremolinos Protocol of 1993 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels, 1977 (1993 Torremolinos Protocol) uses the term “fire-retardant" with regard to materials for the construction of the hull and rigid cover of lifeboats, but there is no definition of fire-retardant material either in the LSA Code or in the 1993 Torremolinos Protocol.

  2 The Committee, recalling that resolution 7 of the International Conference on Safety of Fishing Vessels held in 1993 in Torremolinos invited the Committee to develop an appropriate definition of fire-retardant materials together with the corresponding criteria related to the said definition as well as fire test procedures aimed at assessing compliance with the criteria for such materials, approved Guidelines on fire test procedures for acceptance of fire-retardant materials for the construction of lifeboats, as set out in the annex.

  3 Member Governments are invited to apply the annexed Guidelines when approving fire-retardant materials used for the construction of lifeboats.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.1006 – Guidelines on Fire Test Procedures for Acceptance of Fire-Retardant Materials for the Construction of Lifeboats – (Adopted on 8 June 2001)
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