The International Conference on Tanker Saftey and Pollution
Prevention, 1978, with resolution 5, requested the Organization to
re-examine the requirements relating to inert gas systems in regulation II-2/62 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention,
and to develop guidelines to supplement the requirements of that regulation.
The Maritime Safety Committee at its forty-second session
approved the Guidelines for Inert Gas Systems (MSC/Circ.282), and
at its forty-eighth session adopted amendments to sections 8 and 12
of the Guidelines (MSC/Circ.353). Furthermore, the Maritime Safety
Committee at its fiftieth session adopted revised section 5.5 —
cargo discharge — of the revised Guidelines (MSC/Circ.387).
This part provides the text of the Guidelines for Inert Gas Systems
which incorporates all these amendments.