The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.387(94) – Amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 2009 (2009 MODU CODE) – (Adopted on 18 November 2014)The Annex of this resolution has been consolidated into 2009 MODU Code - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

 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 2009 MODU Code as appropriate, taking into consideration developments in design and technology, in consultation with appropriate organizations,

 NOTING that the 2009 MODU Code contains the requirements regarding the type, quantity, operation and maintenance of life-saving appliances for mobile offshore units for drilling, production and service in offshore oil and gas fields as well as the corresponding provisions for crew training,

 RECOGNIZING that these requirements and provisions are very similar to the SOLAS requirements and that some of them, being applied to mobile offshore units, may lead to potentially hazardous situations, due to the fact that they have been developed on the basis of typical operations for conventional ships,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-fourth session, the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment at its first session, upon review the 2009 MODU Code,

  1 ADOPTS, the amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 2009 (2009 MODU Code), as set out in the annex to the present resolution, for mobile offshore drilling units, the keels of which are laid or which are at a similar stage of construction on or after 18 November 2014;

  2 INVITES Governments to implement the amendments attached to the present resolution and to bring them to the attention of all parties concerned.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.387(94) – Amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 2009 (2009 MODU CODE) – (Adopted on 18 November 2014)The Annex of this resolution has been consolidated into 2009 MODU Code
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