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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-second session (12 to 21 June 2013), with a view to providing a consistent process for the coordination, review and approval of alternatives and equivalents with regard to ship and system design as allowed by the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended, and other mandatory IMO instruments, approved the annexed Guidelines for the approval of alternatives and equivalents as provided for in various IMO instruments.

  2 Administrations and non-governmental organizations are invited to bring the annexed Guidelines to the attention of shipowners, shipbuilders, designers and system manufacturers.

Parent topic: MSC.1/Circular.1455 – Guidelines for the Approval of Alternatives and Equivalents as Provided for in Various IMO Instruments – (24 June 2013)
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