RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.673(16) by
which the Assembly adopted the Guidelines for the transport and handling
of limited amounts of hazardous and noxious liquid substances in bulk
on offshore support vessels (LHNS Guidelines),
NOTING that the Assembly, by the aforementioned resolution,
authorized the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment
Protection Committee to amend the Guidelines as may be necessary,
NOTING ALSO that the Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-second
session, adopted the Guidelines for the design and construction of
offshore supply vessels, 2006 (OSV Guidelines),
NOTING FURTHER that the LHNS Guidelines were referred to
in and applied in addition to the OSV Guidelines, stipulating that,
where the Guidelines set forth alternative safety standards to those
contained in the OSV Guidelines, the provisions of the LHNS Guidelines
should be followed,
BEING DESIROUS of keeping the LHNS Guidelines up to date,
NOTING that the Marine Environment Protection Committee,
at its fifty-fifth session, adopted by resolution
MEPC.158(55) relevant amendments to the LHNS Guidelines,
CONSIDERING that it is highly desirable for the provisions
of the LHNS Guidelines to remain identical when adopted by the Maritime
Safety Committee and the Marine Environment Protection Committee,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-second session, the amendments
to the LHNS Guidelines proposed by the Sub-Committee on Stability
and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety, at its forty-eighth
session, which were contributed by the Sub-Committees on Bulk Liquids
and Gases and on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers,
1 ADOPTS the amendments to the Guidelines for
the transport and handling of limited amounts of hazardous and noxious
liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels (resolution A.673(16)), the text of which
is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Governments to take appropriate steps
to give effect to the annexed amendments to the LHNS Guidelines.