RECALLING Article 16(i) of the Convention on the Inter-Governmental
Maritime Consultative Organization concerning the functions of the
Assembly,
NOTING that mobile offshore drilling units are increasingly
being moved and operated internationally,
RECOGNIZING that the design criteria for such units are
often quite different from those of conventional ships and that, by
virtue of this, the application of international conventions, such
as the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974,
and the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, is inappropriate
in respect of mobile offshore drilling units,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its fortieth session,
1 ADOPTS the Code for the Construction and Equipment
of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU Code), the text of which is
set out in the Annex to this resolution, and which supersedes the
following recommendations:
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(a) Safety radiocommunication requirements for
drilling and production platforms and similar units (resolution A.182(VI));
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(b) Recommendation on Life-Saving Appliances,
Equipment and Procedures for Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (provisionally
adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee at its nineteenth session
(LSA/Circ.23));
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(c) Recommendation on Fire Safety of Mobile Offshore
Drilling Units (adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee at its twenty-second
session (MSC/Circ.86));
2 INVITES all Governments concerned:
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(a) To take appropriate steps to give effect to
the Code not later than 31 December 1981;
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(b) To consider the Code as an equivalent to the
technical requirements of the above-mentioned Conventions;
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(c) To inform IMCO of measures taken in this respect.