1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-eighth
session (24 November to 3 December 2010), with a view to providing
more specific guidance for application of the relevant requirements
of the International Code for Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code), approved
the unified interpretation of chapter 12 of
the FSS Code, as set out in the annex, prepared by the Sub-Committee
on Fire Protection, at its fifty-fourth session.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretation as guidance when applying relevant provisions
of chapter 12 of the FSS Code for ships
constructed on or after 1 January 2012 and to bring the unified interpretation
to the attention of all parties concerned.