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 1 In the context of the Guidelines on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of bulk carriers and oil tankers, adopted by Assembly resolution A.744(18),footnote the Maritime Safety Committee instructed the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment to develop requirements for access to tanks and ballast space structures.

  2 At its sixty-fifth session (9 to 17 May 1995), the Committee approved Guidelines on the means of access to structures for inspection and maintenance of oil tankers and bulk carriers which provide recommendations on the access to tanks, cargo holds and ballast spaces to enable the hull structure to be examined in a safe and practical way, when the overall and close-up surveys complying with the provisions of SOLAS regulation XI/2 and resolution A.744(18)footnote are being performed.

  3 At its ninety-eighth session (7 to 16 June 2017), the Committee approved the amendments to the Guidelines on the means of access to structures for inspection and maintenance of oil tankers and bulk carriers, annexed hereto.

 4 Member States are invited to apply these Guidelines to ships constructed on or after 1 October 1994. In the case of ships constructed before 1 October 1994, the Guidelines should be applied in so far as the Administration deems reasonable and practicable.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.686/Rev.1 – Guidelines on the Means of Access to Structures for Inspection and Maintenance of Oil Tankers and Bulk Carriers (SOLAS Regulation XI-1/2) – (Adopted on 9 June 2017)
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