BEING PARTIES to the International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea, done at London on 1 November 1974,
RECOGNIZING the need for the introduction into the above-mentioned
Convention of provisions for survey and certification harmonized with
corresponding provisions in other international instruments,
CONSIDERING that this need may best be met by the conclusion
of a Protocol relating to the International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea, 1974,
HAVE AGREED as follows: