RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety
and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,
NOTING the current practices of the offshore industry for
servicing and resupplying mobile offshore drilling units and offshore
platforms, including those employed in the search for and recovery
of hydrocarbons from the sea-bed,
NOTING ALSO the continuing and increasing need for offshore
support vessels to carry limited quantities of noxious and hazardous
liquids in bulk in the normal course of their operations,
NOTING FURTHER that regulation 13(4) (now regulation 11.2) of Annex II to
the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto,
calls for guidelines to be developed by the Organization on the basis
of which Administrations shall establish appropriate measures in respect
of ships other than chemical tankers carrying noxious liquid substances
of category A, B or C in bulk,
RECOGNIZING that full application of the International Code
for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals
in Bulk and the International Code for the Construction and Equipment
of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, in accordance with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea,
1974, as amended and the International Convention for the Prevention
of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978
relating thereto, to cover safety and pollution aspects is not necessary
for offshore support vessels, having regard to the limited quantities
of chemicals permitted to be carried, and to the modified requirements
of the said instruments as contained in the Guidelines in the Annex to this resolution,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Maritime Safety
Committee, at its fifty-seventh session, and the Marine Environment
Protection Committee, at its twenty-sixth session,
1. ADOPTS the Guidelines for the Transport and
Handling of Limited Amounts of Hazardous and Noxious Liquid Substances
in Bulk on Offshore Support Vessels, the text of which is contained
in the Annex to this resolution;
2. INVITES all Governments concerned:
3. AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee and
the Marine Environment Protection Committee to amend the guidelines
as may be necessary.