1 The Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its sixty-seventh session (13 to 17
October 2014), and the Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-fourth session (17 to 21
November 2014), approved the Unified interpretation on keel laying date for
fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) craft prepared by the Sub-Committee on
Implementation of IMO Instruments (III) at its first session (14 to 18 July 2014), as
set out in the annex, with a view to providing more specific guidance for the
application of the term "keel laying date" to FRP craft, stipulated in several mandatory
instruments.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed interpretation when applying the
relevant requirements of the MARPOL, Tonnage Measurement and the Load Lines Conventions,
the 1994 and 2000 HSC Codes and other instruments, unless explicitly stipulated
otherwise in those instruments, and to bring it to the attention of all parties
concerned.