1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-ninth
session 11 to 20 May 1998 approved, with a view to adoption at its
future session, amendments to the International Code for the Construction
and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code)
with the purpose of clarifying some aspects of the Code, as set out
in the annex.
2 Considering that these amendments constitute
important safety provisions and pending their formal adoption and
subsequent entry into force, the Committee recommended Contracting
Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention:
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1 to implement on an interim basis the provisions
of the annexed proposed amendments; and
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2 to accept ships flying the flags of other States,
constructed and equipped in accordance with the IGC Code and with
the proposed amendments, as complying in all respects with the provisions
of the Code, as amended.
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3 Member Governments are invited to give effect
to the aforementioned proposed amendments, as appropriate, when applying
the provisions of the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships
Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (resolution A.328(IX) as amended)
and the Code for Existing Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk,
as amended.