1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-seventh
session (28 May to 6 June 2003), with a view to ensuring uniform application
of the fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction provisions
of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended by resolution MSC.99(73),
containing vague wording which is open to diverging interpretations,
approved the unified interpretations relating to emergency escape
breathing devices (EEBD), set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretations as guidance when applying relevant provisions
of the revised SOLAS chapter II-2 for
ships constructed on or after 1 July 2003 and to bring them to the
attention of all parties concerned.