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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-fifth session (26 November to 5 December 2008), adopted, by resolution MSC.267(85), the International Code on Intact Stability, 2008 (2008 IS Code). In adopting the 2008 IS Code, the Committee recognized the necessity of appropriate explanatory notes to ensure uniform interpretation and application.

  2 To this end, the Committee approved the Explanatory Notes to the Intact Stability Code, 2008, set out in the annex, as prepared by the Sub-Committee on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety, at its fiftieth session (30 April to 4 May 2007).

  3 The Explanatory Notes are intended to provide Administrations and the shipping industry with specific guidance to assist in the uniform interpretation and application of the intact stability requirements of the 2008 IS Code.

  4 Member Governments are invited to use the Explanatory Notes when applying the intact stability requirements of the 2008 IS Code adopted by resolution MSC.267(85) and to bring them to the attention of all parties concerned.

Parent topic: MSC.1/Circular.1281 – Explanatory Notes to the International Code on Intact Stability, 2008 – (9 December 2008)
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