1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-eighth
session (24 November to 3 December 2010), with a view to ensuring
a uniform approach towards the application of the provisions of the
Performance standard for protective coatings for dedicated seawater
ballast tanks in all types of ships and double-side skin spaces of
bulk carriers (resolution MSC.215(82));
and following the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Ship
Design and Equipment, at its fifty-third session, approved the unified
interpretations for the above Performance standard, as set out in
the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretations when applying the relevant provisions of the
Performance standard and to bring them to the attention of all parties
concerned.