Ingangsdatum: 23-11-1996
THE ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING
Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning
the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning
maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO regulations
IV/8.1.5.1, IV/9.3.2, IV/10.1.1 and IV/14.1 of the 1988 amendments to the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS),1974, concerning radiocommunications
for the global maritime distress and safely system (GMDSS), which require, respectively,
that ships be provided with an Inmarsat-C ship earth station capable of transmitting and
receiving direct-printing communications and that such ship earth stations shall conform
to appropriate performance standards not inferior to those adopted by the Organization,
RECOGNIZING the need to prepare performance
standards for Inmarsat-C ship earth stations operating through the geostationary
Inmarsat satellite system to be used in the GMDSS in order to ensure the operational
reliability of such equipment and to avoid, as far as practicable, adverse interaction
between such equipment and other communication and navigation equipment on board ship,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the
Maritime Safety Committee at its Sixty-fifth session,
1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Inmarsat-C Ship Earth
Stations Capable of Transmitting and Receiving Direct-Printing Communications set. out
In the annex to the present resolution;
2. NOTES
that part A of the Inmarsat-C design and installation guidelines is similar to the
present performance standards iota Inmarsat-C ship earth stations and to the general
requirements for shipborne radio equipment set out in resolution A.694(17);
3. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that every
fnmarsat-C ship earth station which forms part of the GMDSS:
(a) if Installed on or after 23 November 1996, conforms to performance
standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present resolution;
(b) if installed before 23 November 1996, conforms to performance
standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to resolution A.663(16), which
are in accordance with part A of the Inmarsat design and installation guidelines;
4. INVITES Inmarsat to ensure that any amendments to
part A of the Inmarsat-C design and installation guidelines are agreed with the
Organization prior to their adoption;
5. REQUESTS
the Maritime Safety Committee to ensure that any proposed amendments to this resolution
are agreed with Inmarsat prior to their adoption;
6.
REQUESTS ALSO the Maritime Safety Committee to keep these Performance Standards under
review and to adopt amendments thereto, as necessary.