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The measure aims to increase the safety of navigation and ensure that domestic regulations are updated to international conventions ratified by Brazil
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro issued Decree 10,850 of 3 November 2021, promulgating a set of amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS 1974), as well as to the Annex to the Convention and the 1988 Protocol of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The amendments enacted by the head of the Executive Branch were adopted by the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) between 2003 and 2006. The updated regulation is already in effect, as shown in the table below.
| International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS 1974) | |
| Amendment – Subject | Effective |
| 2003 amendments (MSC.142(77)) – chapter V | 1 July 2006 |
| 2004 amendments (MSC.151(78)) – chapter II 1 | 1 January 2006 |
| 2004 amendments (MSC.152(78)) – chapters III and IV and appendix | 1 July 2006 |
| 2004 amendments (MSC.153(78)) – chapter V | 1 July 2006 |
| 2004 amendments (MSC.170(79)) – chapters II 1, III, V, VII and XII and appendix (Standards and criteria for side structures of bulk carriers of single-skin construction (MSC.168(79)) and Standards for owners’ inspection and maintenance of bulk carrier hatch covers (MSC.169(79) )) | 1 July 2006 |
| 2005 amendments (MSC.194(80)) – Annex 1: chapter II 1 | 1 January 2007 |
| 2005 amendments (MSC.194(80)) – Annex 2: chapters II 1, II 2, VI, IX, XI 1 and XI 2 and appendix | 1 January 2009 |
| 2006 amendments (MSC.201(81)) – chapters II 2, III, IV and V | 1 July 2010 |
| 2006 amendments (MSC.202(81)) – chapter V | 1 January 2008 |
| 2006 amendments (MSC.216(82)) – Annex 1: chapters II-1, II-2, III and XII and appendix (Performance standard for protective coatings for dedicated seawater ballast tanks in all types of ships and double side skin spaces of bulk carriers (MSC.215(82))) | 1 July 2008 |
| 2006 amendments (MSC.216(82)) – Annex 2: chapter II-1 | 1 January 2009 |
| 2006 amendments (MSC.216(82)) – Annex 3: chapters II-1, II-2, and III | 1 July 2010 |
| Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS Protocol 1988) | |
| 2004 amendments (MSC.171(79)) | 1 July 2006 |
| 2006 amendments (to the appendix to the Annex (MSC.227(82)) | 1 July 2008 |
Brazil enacted the 1974 Edition of the Convention through Decree 9,988 of 26 August 2019.
As of October 2021, SOLAS 1974 had 167 contracting states covering 98.9% of the world’s tonnage of merchant ships. In the same period, the SOLAS Protocol of 1988 had been signed by 123 states (97.7% of world tonnage).
SOLAS Convention is one of the pillars of international treaties that regulate issues related to the safety of maritime navigation to enforce minimum standards regarding the protection of human life at sea.
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