Resolution MSC.184(79)

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE GUIDELINES FOR THE TRANSPORT AND HANDLING OF LIMITED AMOUNTS OF HAZARDOUS AND NOXIOUS LIQUID SUBSTANCES IN BULK ON OFFSHORE SUPPORT VESSELS (LHNS GUIDELINES)

(adopted on 9 December 2004)

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.673(16), by which the Assembly, at its sixteenth session, adopted the Guidelines for the transport and handling of limited amounts of hazardous and noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels (LHNS Guidelines),

NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee and the Marine Environment Protection Committee to amend the Guidelines as may be necessary,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-ninth session, amendments to the Guidelines proposed by the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation, at its eleventh session, which were approved by the Committee, at its seventy-eighth session,

1. ADOPTS amendments to the Guidelines for the transport and handling of limited amounts of hazardous and noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

2. DETERMINES that the said amendments should become effective on 1 January 2007.

Annex.

AMENDMENTS TO THE GUIDELINES FOR THE TRANSPORT AND HANDLING OF LIMITED AMOUNTS OF HAZARDOUS AND NOXIOUS LIQUID SUBSTANCES IN BULK ON OFFSHORE SUPPORT VESSELS

APPENDIX 2.