Resolution MSC.187(79)

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS (MODU CODE)

(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.649(16), by which the Assembly, at its sixteenth session, adopted the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU Code),

NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee to amend the Code when appropriate,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-ninth session, amendments to the MODU Code 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 Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU Code), as amended, 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 July 2006.

Annex.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS, AS AMENDED

Appendix.

M ODEL FORM OF MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNIT SAFETY CERTIFICATE (1989)

1. In the form of the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate (1989), the following new section is inserted between