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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-fifth session (26 November to 5 December 2008), and the Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its fifty-ninth session (13 to 17 July 2009), approved a unified interpretation on measurement of distances, set out in the annex, with a view to harmonizing the measurement of distances stipulated in several mandatory instruments.

  2 Member Governments are invited to use the interpretation when applying the relevant requirements of the SOLAS, Load Lines and MARPOL Conventions, unless explicitly stipulated otherwise in those instruments, and to bring it to the attention of all parties concerned.

Parent topic: MSC-MEPC.5/Circular.5 – Unified Interpretation on Measurement of Distances – (3 August 2009)
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