Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the Long-Range
Identification and tracking of ships
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) on Procedure for the adoption of, and
amendments to, performance standards and technical specifications, 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,
RECALLING FURTHER the provisions of the new regulation V/19-1 of the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended (the Convention),
relating to the long-range identification and tracking of ships,
ALSO RECALLING the Performance standards and functional requirements for the
long-range identification and tracking of ships (the Performance standards) adopted
by resolution MSC.210(81) and amended by resolution MSC.254(83),
RECOGNIZING the need to adopt certain amendments to the Performance standards,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made, at its eighty-fourth session,
1. ADOPTS the Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the
long-range identification and tracking of ships, set out in the Annex to the present
resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Contracting Governments to the Convention to ensure that:
- shipborne systems and equipment used to meet the requirements of regulation
V/19-1 of the Convention conform to performance standards not inferior to those
specified in the Annex to the present resolution;
- all Long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) Data Centres and the
International LRIT Data Exchange conform to functional requirements not inferior
to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution; and
- they promptly submit to the Organization and to the LRIT Data Centres the
required information to enable the establishment and the continuous functioning of
the LRIT system and that they update such information as and when changes
occur;
3. AGREES to review and amend, in the light of experience gained
as necessary, the Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the
long-range identification and tracking of ships, set out in the Annex to the present
resolution;
4. REVOKES resolutions MSC.210(81) and MSC.254(83).