RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution MSC.35(63) by
which it adopted Guidelines for emergency towing arrangements on tankers
(hereinafter referred to as “the Guidelines”),
NOTING that by resolution MSC.99(73) it adopted, at its
seventy-third session, amendments to SOLAS regulation II-1/3-4 on Emergency towing arrangements
on tankers, which made it necessary to introduce consequential amendments
to the Guidelines,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-fifth session, amendments
to the Guidelines as proposed by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design
and Equipment at its forty-fourth session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Guidelines for emergency towing
arrangements on tankers, the text of which is set out in the Annex
to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS that Member Governments bring the annexed
amendments to the attention of all parties concerned.