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
and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,
BEING AWARE that shipboard emergency plans addressing different
categories of emergencies are required under the provisions of the
1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended, and the
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships,
1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto, as amended,
RECALLING resolution A.852(20),
by which it adopted the Guidelines for a structure of an integrated
system of contingency planning for shipboard emergencies, containing
guidance to assist in the preparation and use of a module structure
of an integrated system of shipboard emergency plans,
BEING CONCERNED that the presence on board ships of different
and non-harmonized emergency plans may be counterproductive in case
of an emergency,
RECOGNIZING that many ships already make use of comprehensive
and effective emergency plans, such as the Shipboard Oil Pollution
Emergency Plan (SOPEP),
CONSCIOUS of the need that human element aspects are borne
in mind when rules and recommendations affecting shipboard operations
are considered for adoption,
WISHING to assist shipowners, ship operators and other parties
concerned in transposing, where this has not yet been done, the provisions
regulating emergency plans into a coherent contingency regime,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Marine
Environment Protection Committee at its sixty-fourth session and the
Maritime Safety Committee at its ninety-first session,
1 ADOPTS the Revised Guidelines for a structure
of an integrated system of contingency planning for shipboard emergencies,
as set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Governments, in the interests of uniformity,
to accept the aforementioned structure as being in conformity with
the provisions for the development of the shipboard emergency plans
required by various instruments adopted by the Organization;
3 INVITES Governments to refer to these Revised
Guidelines when preparing appropriate national legislation;
4 REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee and the
Marine Environment Protection Committee to keep the Revised Guidelines
under review and amend them as necessary in the light of experience
gained;
5 REVOKES resolution A.852(20) with effect from 1 July 2014.