RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO that it adopted resolution A.686(17) on the
Code on Alarms and Indicators, incorporating therein provisions on
alarms and indicators contained in the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended,
and the IBC, BCH, IGC and
Gas Carrier Codes, as amended,
RECALLING FURTHER that the Maritime Safety Committee, at
its sixty-third session, adopted resolution MSC.39(63) on adoption
of the amendments to the Code on Alarms and Indicators, in order to
extend resolution A.686(17) to cover the 1989 MODU Code and the Code
of Safety for Diving Systems,
NOTING that the Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-fifth
session, approved amendments to resolution A.686(17) to extend it
to cover the 1993 Torremolinos Protocol, Code of Safety for Nuclear
Merchant Ships, IMDG Code, Guidelines for Inert Gas
Systems, Standards for Vapour Emission Control Systems, MARPOL 73/78, HSC Code and
amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning
radiocommunications for the GMDSS, with a view to ensuring uniformity
in the application of these IMO instruments,
RECOGNIZING the need for a revised text of the Code on Alarms
and Indicators which incorporates all the amendments approved since
its original adoption, for ease of implementing its provisions,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its sixty-fifth session,
1. ADOPTS the Code on Alarms and Indicators, 1995,
set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to:
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(a) take appropriate steps to apply the Code;
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(b) use the Code as an international safety standard
for designing alarms and indicators for ships, ships’ equipment
and machinery; and
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(c) inform the Organization of measures taken
for the application of the Code;
3. URGES the Maritime Safety Committee and the
Marine Environment Protection Committee to take account of the provisions
of the Code when developing new standards on alarms and indicators;
4. AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee and
the Marine Environment Protection Committee to amend or extend the
Code as may be necessary;
5. REVOKES resolutions A.686(17) and MSC.39(63).