1 The Committee, at its eighty-fourth session
(7 to 16 May 2008), having recognized the need for guidelines for
corrosion protection of permanent means of access arrangements and
taking into account the Performance standard for protective coatings
for dedicated seawater ballast tanks in all types of ships and double-side
skin spaces of bulk carriers, adopted by resolution
MSC.215(82), and the Performance standard for protective coatings
for void spaces, adopted by resolution MSC.244(83), considered a proposal by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design
and Equipment, at its fifty-first session, and approved the Guidelines
for corrosion protection of permanent means of access arrangements,
set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to apply the
annexed Guidelines during construction of permanent means of access
and bring them to the attention of shipowners, shipbuilders and other
parties concerned.