The Maritime Safety Committee,
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The Maritime Safety Committee,

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-fifth session (15 to 24 May 2002), taking into account the hazards to life posed by smoke generated during a fire and its effect on the safe and orderly evacuation of a passenger ship, approved the Guidelines for smoke control and ventilation systems for internal assembly stations and atriums on new passenger ships, as set out in the annex.

  2 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed Guidelines to the attention of passenger ship designers, owners, operators, shipbuilders and other parties concerned.

  3 Member Governments are also invited to submit to the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection information on experienced gained in the implementation of the Guidelines.


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