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The Maritime Safety Committee

 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its fifty-first session, approved the Guidelines on Interpretation of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code) and the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code), set out at annex.

 The Committee agreed that the Guidelines for the Uniform Application of the Survival Requirements of the Bulk Chemical Code (BCH Code) and the Gas Carrier Code (GC Code), approved by the Maritime Safety Committee at its forty-second session and circulated under symbol MSC/Circ.286, should also be applied to the IBC and IGC Codes and these are included in the annex hereto.

 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its fifty-eighth session, approved the amendments to the section concerning “Drainage of cargo tank vent system" and included a new section on “Proposal for venting arrangements on board chemical tankers".

 Member Governments are invited to apply the guidelines to the IBC and IGC Codes where appropriate and also in respect of the BCH and GC Codes where applicable.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.406/Rev.1 – Guidelines on Interpretation of the IBC Code and the IGC Code and Guidelines for the Uniform Application of the Survival Requirements of the IBC and IGC Codes – (Adopted on 29 June 1990)
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