1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninetieth
session (16 to 25 May 2012), with a view to ensuring a uniform approach
towards the application of the provisions of SOLAS regulation II-1/48.3, and following
a recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment,
at its fifty-sixth session, approved the annexed unified interpretation
concerning the controls of the emergency bilge suction valve in periodically
unattended machinery spaces.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
interpretation from 21 May 2012 when applying the relevant provisions
of SOLAS regulation II-1/48.3 and
to bring it to the attention of all parties concerned.