RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO that the Assembly, when adopting resolution
A.1023(26) on the Code for the Construction and Equipment of
Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 2009 (2009 MODU Code), authorized
the Committee to amend the Code as appropriate, taking into consideration
development in the design and technologies, in consultation with appropriate
organizations,
RECOGNIZING the need for introduction into this Code of
provisions for enclosed space entry and rescue drills,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-second session, the recommendations
made by the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers,
at its seventeenth session,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the 2009 MODU Code, set
out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES all Governments concerned to take appropriate
steps to give effect to the annexed amendments to the 2009 MODU Code
by 1 January 2015.