RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.469(XII) by which the Assembly adopted the Guidelines for the design
and construction of offshore supply vessels (OSV Guidelines),
RECALLING FURTHER resolution MSC.235(82), by which the Committee, at its eighty-second session, adopted
the Guidelines for the design and construction of offshore supply
vessels, 2006 (2006 OSV Guidelines), superseding the OSV Guidelines
adopted by resolution A.469(XII),
RECOGNIZING the need to upgrade the damage stability standard
for larger offshore supply vessels,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninetieth session, amendments
to the 2006 OSV Guidelines, proposed by the Sub-Committee on Stability
and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety, at its fifty-fourth
session,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the Guidelines for the
design and construction of offshore supply vessels, 2006, the text
of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Governments to take appropriate steps
to give effect to the annexed amendments to the 2006 OSV Guidelines.