1 With a view to ensuring uniform application
of the requirements of SOLAS regulations
II-2/3.3.1 and 3.3.2, the Maritime Safety Committee, at its
seventy-fourth session (30 May to 8 June 2001), approved the unified
interpretation prepared by the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection, at
its forty-fifth session, as set out in the attached annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the said
unified interpretation as guidance when applying the provisions of SOLAS regulations II-2/3.3.1 and 3.3.2,
and to bring it to the attention of all parties concerned.