1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-second
session (29 November to 8 December 2006), approved the Explanatory
Notes to the Interim Guidelines for alternative assessment of the
weather criterion, set out in the annex, aiming at providing the industry
with alternative means (in particular, model experiments) for the
assessment of the severe wind and rolling criterion (weather criterion),
as contained in the Code on Intact Stability for all Types of Ships
Covered by IMO Instruments (resolution
A.749(18)).
2 Member Governments are invited to bring the
annexed Explanatory Notes to the Interim Guidelines to the attention
of interested parties as they deem appropriate.