RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines
regarding maritime safety and the prevention and control of marine pollution from
ships,
RECALLING ALSO the adoption by:
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(a) the International Conference on the
Harmonized System of Survey and Certification, 1988, of the Protocol of
1988 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at
Sea, 1974 and of the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International
Convention on Load Lines, 1966, which, inter alia, introduced the
harmonized system of survey and certification into the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 and the International
Convention on Load Lines, 1966, respectively;
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(b) resolution MEPC.39(29) of amendments to introduce the
harmonized system of survey and certification into the International
Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified
by the 1978 Protocol relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78);
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(c) resolution MEPC.132(53) of amendments to introduce the
harmonized system of survey and certification into MARPOL Annex VI;
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(d) the resolutions given below of amendments to introduce the
harmonized system of survey and certification into:
RECALLING ALSO that, by resolution A.1053(27), it adopted the Survey Guidelines
under the Harmonized System of Survey and Certification, 2011("the Survey
Guidelines") with a view to assisting Governments in implementing the requirements
of the aforementioned instruments, and that, by resolution A.1076(28), it adopted
amendments to the Survey Guidelines,
RECOGNIZING the need for the Survey Guidelines to be further revised to take into
account the amendments to the IMO instruments referred to above, which have entered
into force or become effective since the adoption of resolution A.1076(28),
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Marine Environment Protection
Committee, at its sixty-seventh session, and the Maritime Safety Committee, at its
ninety-fourth session,
1 ADOPTS the Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of Survey and
Certification (HSSC), 2015, as set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Governments carrying out surveys required by relevant IMO
instruments to apply the provisions of the annexed Survey Guidelines;
3 REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment
Protection Committee to keep the Survey Guidelines under review and to propose
amendments thereto to the Assembly, as appropriate;
4 REVOKES resolutions A.1053(27) and A.1076(28).