RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECOGNIZING the need to update the aforementioned Code and
the importance of establishing mandatory international intact stability
requirements,
NOTING resolutions MSC.269(85) and MSC.270(85), by which it adopted, inter
alia, amendments to the International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended (hereinafter referred to
as “the 1974 SOLAS Convention”)
and to the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention
on Load Lines, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as “the
1988 Load Lines Protocol”), respectively, to make the
introduction and the provisions of part A of the International Code
on Intact Stability, 2008 mandatory under the 1974 SOLAS
Convention and the 1988 Load Lines Protocol,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-fifth session, the text
of the proposed International Code on Intact Stability, 2008,
1. ADOPTS the International Code on Intact Stability,
2008 (2008 IS Code), the text of which is set out in the Annex to
the present resolution;
2. INVITES Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention and Parties to the 1988
Load Lines Protocol to note that the 2008 IS Code will take
effect on 1 July 2010 upon the entry into force of the respective
amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention and
1988 Load Lines Protocol;
3. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit
certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the 2008
IS Code contained in the Annex to all Contracting Governments to the
1974 SOLAS Convention and Parties to the 1988 Load Lines Protocol;
4. FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit
copies of this resolution and the Annex to all Members of the Organization
which are not Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS
Convention or Parties to the 1988 Load Lines
Protocol;
5. RECOMMENDS Governments concerned to use the
recommendatory provisions contained in part B of the 2008 IS Code
as a basis for relevant safety standards, unless their national stability
requirements provide at least an equivalent degree of safety.