1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-fourth
session (7 to 16 May 2008), with a view to providing more specific
guidance for application of the relevant requirements of the 1974
SOLAS Convention, approved the unified interpretations of SOLAS chapter II-2 prepared by the Sub-Committee
on Fire Protection, at its fifty-second session (14 to 18 January
2008), set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretations as guidance when applying relevant provisions
of SOLAS chapter II-2 to fire protection
construction, installation, arrangements and equipment to be installed
on board ships of which the building contract is placed on or after
9 May 2008, and to bring the unified interpretations to the attention
of all parties concerned.