1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-sixth
session (2 to 13 December 2002), and the Marine Environment Protection
Committee, at its forty-eighth session (7 to 11 October 2002), having
recognized the need for the aforementioned procedures, approved the
Procedures concerning observed ISM Code major
non-conformities, set out in the annex, with a view to assisting flag
States and port States when major non-conformities in a ship's or
a company's safety management system have been observed.
2 Member Governments are invited to apply the
annexed Procedures and bring them to the attention of the parties
concerned.