1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eightieth
session (18 to 27 May 2005) recognized that pre-planning is essential
in order to ensure that major necessary repairs and maintenance works
were effectively carried out during dry docking and that it was the
duty of shipowners to prepare the dry dock survey.
2 The Committee further recognized that resolution A.948(23) did not provide for
pre-planning of surveys carried out in the dry dock whereas resolution A.744(18) did impose a planning
for the intermediate and renewal surveys, which are to include a survey
in dry dock depending on the vessel’s age, conducted under the
enhanced programme of inspection and therefore tasked the Flag State
Implementation Sub-Committee, at its fourteenth session, to develop
a draft circular for the pre-planning of surveys in dry dock of ships
which are not subject to the enhanced programme of inspections.
3 The Committee, at its eighty-second session
(29 November to 8 December 2006), approved the Guidelines for pre-planning
of surveys in dry dock of ships which are not subject to the enhanced
programme of inspections, as set out in the
annex.
4 Member Governments are invited to bring the
annexed Guidelines to all the parties concerned for their application
for pre-planning of surveys in dry dock of ships which are not subject
to the enhanced programme of inspections.