1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-fifth
session (15 to 24 May 2002), with a view to ensuring uniform application
of the fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction provisions
of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended
by resolution MSC.99(73), containing vague wording which is open to
diverging interpretations, approved unified interpretations, as set
out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretations as guidance when applying relevant provisions
of the revised SOLAS chapter II-2 and
to bring them to the attention of all parties concerned.