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,
NOTING that, by Resolution MSC.57(67), the Maritime Safety
Committee adopted, on 5 December 1996, amendments to the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, which, inter
alia, include amendments to Regulation
II-2/18.8 regarding helicopter facilities,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its sixty-eighth session,
1. ADOPTS the Standards for On-board Helicopter
Facilities, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. INVITES Governments to apply these Standards
when implementing the requirements of SOLAS Regulation
II-2/18.8.