1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-eighth
session (12 to 21 May 2004), considered whether there is a need to
provide guidance to port State control officers in respect of the
non-security related elements of the 2002 SOLAS amendments, which
will enter into force on 1 July 2004 and adopted the guidance set
out in the attached annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to bring the
attached Guidance to the attention of those involved with port State
control inspections in accordance with SOLAS regulation I/19.