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The Maritime Safety Committee

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-ninth session (11 to 20 May 1998), noted that the 1995 SOLAS Conference, in adopting amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning the safety of ro-ro passenger ships, also adopted regulation V/15(c), which requires passenger ships to which SOLAS chapter I applies, trading on fixed routes to have on board a plan for co-operation with appropriate search and rescue services in event of an emergency.

  2 The Committee having considered the recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue (COMSAR), at its third session, approved Guidelines for preparing plans for co-operation between passenger ships and SAR services (in accordance with SOLAS regulation V/15(c)), as set out at annex.

  3 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed guidelines to the attention of those concerned and to use the provisions contained therein as appropriate.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.864 – Guidelines for Preparing Plans for Co-operation between Search and Rescue Services and Passenger Ships on Fixed Routes (in accordance with SOLAS Regulation V/15(c)) – (Adopted on 22 May 1998)
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