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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.447(99) - Amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (GC Code) - (adopted on 24 May 2018) - 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 resolution A.328(IX) by which the Assembly, at its ninth session, adopted the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (GC Code),

NOTING resolution MSC.441(99), by which it adopted the corresponding amendments to the Certificate of Fitness under the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code),

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-ninth session, amendments to the Certificate of Fitness under the GC Code prepared by the Secretariat and, subsequently, approved by the Committee at its ninety-eighth session,

RECOGNIZING the need for the amendments to the GC Code to become effective on the date on which the corresponding amendments to the IGC Code enter into force,

1 ADOPTS amendments to the Certificate of Fitness under the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, as amended, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2 DETERMINES that the said amendments shall become effective on 1 January 2020 upon acceptance and entry into force of the corresponding amendments to the IGC Code adopted by resolution MSC.441(99).

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.447(99) - Amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (GC Code) - (adopted on 24 May 2018)
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