RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
                           Maritime Organisation concerning the functions of the Assembly in
                           relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety.
                        
                        
                        
                      
                     
                     
                     
                        
                        
                         NOTING that, by Resolution MSC.24(60), the Maritime Safety
                           Committee adopted the amendments to SOLAS Chapter II-2 dealing with
                           fire-protection measures to be taken in respect of existing passenger
                           ships which, inter alia, require that plans and booklets
                           referred to in Regulation II-2/20 shall
                           provide the information regarding fire protection, fire detection
                           and fire extinction,
                           
                        
                        
                        
                      
                     
                     
                     
                        
                        
                         NOTING ALSO that, by Resolution MSC.27(61), the Maritime
                           Safety Committee adopted similar amendments dealing with new passenger
                           ships,
                        
                        
                        
                      
                     
                     
                     
                        
                        
                         REFERRING to the decision by the Maritime Safety Committee
                           at its sixtieth session that guidelines on information to be contained
                           in plans and booklets regarding fire protection, fire detection and
                           fire extinction should be developed before the relevant SOLAS provisions
                           become effective,
                        
                        
                        
                        
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                                 1. ADOPTS the Guidelines on the information to
                                 be provided with fire control plans and booklets required by SOLAS Regulation II-2/20 and 41-2, set out in
                                 the annex to the present resolution;
                                 
                               
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                                 2. INVITES Governments to apply the above Guidelines
                                 when implementing the amendments to chapter II-2 of the SOLAS Convention
                                 adopted by resolution MSC.24(60).