This edition incorporates amendments to the Convention on the International Maritime Organization up to December 2009.

It also includes amendments to the Rules of Procedure of:

• the Assembly up to December 2009
• the Council up to July 2009; – the Maritime Safety Committee up to June 2009
• the Legal Committee up to April 2009; – the Marine Environment Protection Committee up to March 2010
• the Technical Co-operation Committee up to June 2005
• the Facilitation Committee up to January 2009
• and – Meetings under the London Convention, 1972 and the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention up to November 2006.