RECALLING Article 16(i) of the Convention on the Inter-Governmental
Maritime Consultative Organization,
RECALLING FURTHER Recommendation 11 of the International
Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1960, concerning test procedures
for fire resisting and retarding divisions, deck coverings and flame-spread
characteristics,
RECOGNIZING the need to provide internationally a uniform
test method for determining the resistance to flame of vertically
supported textiles and films, as specified in Regulation 3(s)(iii)
of Chapter 11-2 of the International Convention for the Safety of
Life at Sea, 1974,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its forty-second and forty-fourth sessions,
1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Test Method for
Determining the Resistance to Flame of Vertically Supported Textiles
and Films, the text of which appears in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. INVITES all Governments concerned to apply
the recommendation in determining compliance with the requirements
for the resistance to propagation of flame specified in Regulation
3(s)(iii) of Chapter 11-2 of the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea, 1974;
3. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to continue
in due time work on the development of further fire test procedures
as well as smoke test and toxicity test procedures for circulation
to Governments.