RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.749(18),
by which the Assembly, at its eighteenth session, adopted the Code
on Intact Stability for All Types of Ships Covered by IMO Instruments
(IS Code),
NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee to amend
the Code as necessary in the light of further studies and experience
gained from the implementation of the provisions contained therein,
DESIRING to keep the IS Code up to
date,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-ninth session, the amendments
to the IS Code proposed by the Sub-Committee
on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety, at its
forty-first session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Code on Intact Stability
for All Types of Ships Covered by IMO Instruments (resolution A.749(18)), the text of which
is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to implement the annexed
amendments to the IS Code.