3. pants

The MSC, at its first

extraordinary session, held also in November 2001, in order to

accelerate the development and the adoption of the appropriate

security measures established an MSC Intersessional Working Group

on Maritime Security. The first meeting of the MSC Intersessional

Working Group on Maritime Security was held in February 2002 and

the outcome of its discussions was reported to, and considered

by, the seventy-fifth session of the MSC in March 2002, when an

ad hoc Working Group was established to further develop the

proposals made. The seventy-fifth session of the MSC considered

the report of that Working Group and recommended that work should

be taken forward through a further MSC Intersessional Working

Group, which was held in September 2002. The seventy-sixth

session of the MSC considered the outcome of the September 2002

session of the MSC Intersessional Working Group and the further

work undertaken by the MSC Working Group held in conjunction with

the Committee's seventy-sixth session in December 2002,

immediately prior to the Diplomatic Conference and agreed the

final version of the proposed texts to be considered by the

Diplomatic Conference.