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 1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-fourth session (30 May to 8 June 2001), and the Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its forty-seventh session (4 to 8 March 2002), approved the Guidelines for Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) for use in the IMO rule-making process (MSC/Circ.1023-MEPC/Circ.392, as amended by MSC/Circ.1180-MEPC/Circ.474 and MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.5).

 2 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-first session (26 to 30 November 2012), and the Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its sixty-fifth session (13 to 17 May 2013), reviewed the above guidelines and approved the Revised guidelines for Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) for use in the IMO rule-making process (MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.12).

 3 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-fourth session (17 to 21 November 2014) and the Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its sixty-eighth session (11 to 15 May 2015), approved draft amendments to paragraph 9.3.3 of the aforementioned Revised FSA guidelines, for circulation of the amended revised guidelines as MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.12/Rev.1.

 4 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-eighth session (7 to 16 June 2017) and the Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its seventy-second session (9 to 13 April 2018), approved the amendment to the flow chart shown in figure 2 referred to in paragraph 27 of appendix 10 to the revised FSA guidelines, for circulation of the amended revised guidelines, as set out in the annex, as MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.12/Rev.2.

 5 Member States and non-governmental organizations are invited to apply the revised guidelines contained in the annex.

 6 This circular supersedes MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.12/Rev.1.

Parent topic: MSC-MEPC.2/Circular.12/Rev.2 – Revised Guidelines for Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) for Use in the IMO Rule-Making Process – (9 April 2018)
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