![]() ![]() The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS Convention), as amended, deals with various aspects of maritime safety and contains, in parts A and B of chapter VI and part A-1 of chapter VII, the mandatory provisions governing the carriage of solid bulk cargoes and the carriage of dangerous goods in solid form in bulk, respectively. RESOLVES that the annexed IMSBC Code supersedes the Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes, 2004, adopted by resolution MSC.193(79).FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit copies of this resolution and its annex to all Members of the Organization which are not Contracting Governments to the Convention.REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit certified copies of this resolution and its annex to all Contracting Governments to the Convention.AGREES that Contracting Governments to the Convention may apply the IMSBC Code in whole or in part on a voluntary basis as from 1 January 2009.INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention to note that the IMSBC Code will take effect on 1 January 2011 upon entry into force of amendments to chapters VI and VII of the Convention.NOTES that, under the aforementioned amendments to chapter VI of the Convention, future amendments to the IMSBC Code shall be adopted, brought into force and shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of article VIII of the Convention concerning the amendments procedures applicable to the Annex to the Convention other than chapter I thereof.ADOPTS the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution.NOTING ALSO resolution MSC.269(85) by which it adopted amendments to chapters VI and VII of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 1974, as amended (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"), to make the provisions of the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code mandatory under the Convention, HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-fifth session, the text of the proposed International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code, RECOGNIZING the need to provide a mandatory application of the agreed international standards for the carriage of solid bulk cargoes by sea, NOTING the adoption by the Committee of resolution MSC.193(79) on the Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes, 2004, RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee, ![]()
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