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The Maritime Safety Committee,

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the function of the Committee,

 RECOGNIZING the importance that the routeing measures boundary symbology and charting of archipelagic sea lanes used in the General Provisions on Ships' Routeing should correctly reflect those adopted by IHO,

 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the decision of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-fourth session to align the routeing measures boundary symbology and charting of archipelagic sea lanes in Annexes 1 and 2 of General Provisions on Ships' Routeing,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-fifth session, the text of proposed amendments to Annexes 1 and 2 of the General Provisions on Ship's Routeing (resolution A.572(14), as amended), to align them with the specifications for routeing measures boundary symbology and charting of archipelagic sea lanes adopted by IHO,

  1. ADOPTS the amendments to the General Provisions on Ships Routeing (resolution A.527(14), as amended), to align them with the specifications for routeing measures boundary symbology and charting of archipelagic sea lanes adopted by IHO, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2. DETERMINES that amendments to the General Provisions on Ships' Routeing including amendments to the General Provisions for the adoption, designation and substitution of archipelagic sea lanes shall be adopted, brought into force and shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of resolution A.572(14), as amended;

  3. INVITES Governments intending to submit proposals for the adoption of ships'routeing systems including, designation and substitution of archipelagic sea lanes to take account of the annexed General Provisions;

  4. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to bring this resolution and its Annex to the attention of all Contracting Governments to the SOLAS Convention and to Members of the Organization which are not Contracting Governments to the Convention.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.280(85) – Adoption of Amendments to the General Provisions on Ships' Routeing – (Adopted on 1 December 2008)
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