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The Assembly,

 Resolution MSC.112(73) is applicable to equipment installed on or after 1 July 2003.

Resolution A.819(19) is applicable to equipment installed before 1 July 2003.

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,

HAVING ADOPTED by resolution A.815(19) 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,

RECOGNIZING that the Maritime Safety Committee has identified that the Global Positioning System (GPS) may be a 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,

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its sixty-fourth session,

1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Shipborne Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Equipment set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2. INVITES Governments to ensure that GPS receiver equipment carried on ships of their flag conform to the performance standards set out in the annex to the present resolution;

3. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep these Performance Standards under review and to adopt amendments thereto, as necessary.

Parent topic: IMO Resolution A.819(19) – Performance Standards for Shipborne Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Equipment – (Adopted on 23 November 1995)
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