1 The Committee, at its sixty-eighth session (28
May to 6 June 1997), recognizing that there was a need to amend the
relevant regulations of chapter II-2 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention
to enhance the fire safety of deep-fat cooking equipment installed
in ships' galley area, agreed that the draft amendments to SOLAS regulation II-2/18, as set out in
the annex, should be included in future amendments to chapter II-2
of SOLAS 74.
2 Member Governments are invited, pending adoption
and entry into force of the aforementioned proposed amendments to
the 1974 SOLAS Convention, to apply them to new installations of deep-fat
cooking equipment.