This is the Spanish edition of LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES (LSA) CODE, 2003

and Testing and Evaluation of Life-Saving Appliances, Resolution MSC.81 (70)The LSA Code was adopted by the MSC at its 66th session in June 1996 by resolution MSC.48(66) in order to provide international standards for the life-saving appliances required by chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention. The Code was made mandatory by MSC at this session by resolution MSC.47(66) and entered into force on 1 July 1998.By resolution A.689(17), the Assembly adopted the Recommendations on the testing of life-saving appliances. In 1998 the MSC recognized the need to introduce more precise requirements for the testing of life-saving appliances and, also recalling that it had amended the Recommendations on several occasions since their adoption, adopted the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances (resolution MSC.81(70)), effectively replacing resolution A.689(17).Resolution A.520(13) - Code of practice for the evaluation, testing and acceptance of prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements - was adopted by the Assembly in 1983 in order to cater for prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements which may be developed and do not fully meet the requirements of chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention but provide the same or higher safety standards.