THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,RECALLING Article (28(b) of the Convention on the
International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.886(21), by which the
Assembly resolved that the function of adopting performance standards and technical
specifications, as well as amendments thereto shall be performed by the Maritime Safety
Committee and/or the Marine Environment Protection Committee, as appropriate, on behalf
of the Organization,
RECALLING FURTHER that, in
accordance with resolution A.815(19) by which the Assembly adopted the IMO policy for
the recognition and acceptance of suitable radionavigation systems intended for
international use to provide ships with navigational position-fixing throughout their
voyages, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been recognized as a possible component
of the world-wide radionavigation system,
NOTING
that shipborne receiving equipment for the world-wide radionavigation system should be
designed to satisfy the detailed requirements of the particular system concerned,
RECOGNIZING the need to improve the previously
adopted, by resolution A.819(19), performance standards for shipborne GPS receiver equipment
in order to ensure the operational reliability of such equipment and taking into account
the technological progress and experience gained,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation on the revision of resolution A.819(19) made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its
forty-sixth session,
1. ADOPTS the Revised
Recommendation on Performance Standards for Shipborne Global Positioning System (GPS)
Receiver Equipment, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that GPS receiver equipment:
(a) if installed on or after 1 July 2003, conform to
performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present
resolution; and
(b) if installed before 1 July 2003, conform to
performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to resolution A.819(19).