OMI - IMO874F - Recueil international de règles de stabilité à l'état intact (Code IS) 2009

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"The International Code on Intact Stability 2008 (2008 IS CODE), presents mandatory and recommendatory stability criteria and other measures for ensuring the safe operation of ships, to minimize the risk to such ships, to the personnel'on board'and to the environment. The 2008 IS Code will take effect on 1 July 2010.

The 2008 IS Code features:

• A full updated of the previous IS Code
• Criteria based on the "test" state-of-the-art concepts available at the time they were d'veloped, taking into account sound design and engineering principles and experience gained from operating ships
• Influences on intact stability such as the d'ad ship condition , wind on ships with large windage area, rolling cha'acteristics and severe seas.

This publication also presents Explanatory Notes to the 2008 IS Code, intended to provide Administrations and the shipping industry with s'ecific guidance to assist in the uniform interpretation and'application of the intact stability requ'rements of the 2008 IS Code.

The 2008 IS Code should be of inte est to maritime administrations, ship manufacturers, shipping companies, education'Institutes and others concerned with stability criteria."