RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECOGNIZING the need to provide a mandatory application
of fire test procedures required by chapter
II-2 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life
at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended,
NOTING resolution MSC.57(67) by which it adopted, inter
alia, amendments to chapter II-2 of
the SOLAS Convention to make the provisions of the International Code
for Application of Fire Test Procedures (FTP Code) mandatory under
that Convention on or after 1 July 1998,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its sixty-seventh session, the text
of the proposed FTP Code,
1. ADOPTS the International Code for Application
of Fire Test Procedures (FTP Code), the text of which is set out in
the Annex to the present resolution;
2. NOTES that, under the amendments to chapter II-2 of the SOLAS Convention, amendments
to the FTP Code should be adopted, brought into force and shall take
effect in accordance with the provisions of article VIII of that Convention
concerning the amendment procedure applicable to the Annex to the
Convention other than chapter I;
3. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit
certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the FTP
Code contained in the Annex to all Contracting Governments to the
Convention;
4. FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit
copies of this resolution and the Annex to all Members of the Organization
which are not Contracting Governments to the Convention.