RECALL G Article 28(b) of 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 regulation
V/15 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life
at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, concerning principles relating to bridge design,
design and arrangement of navigational systems and equipment and
bridge procedures,
NOTING that SOLAS regulation
V/18 requires type approved navigational systems conforming
to appropriate performance standards,
RECOGNIZING the need to revise the performance standards
for Integrated Navigation Systems (INS) to enhance the safety
of navigation by providing integrated and augmented functions
to avoid geographic, traffic and environmental hazards,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation on the revised performance
standards for Integrated Navigation Systems made by the Sub-Committee
on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-third session, and the
Maritime Safety Committee at its eighty-third session,
1 ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on performance
standards for Integrated Navigation Systems (INS), set out in
the Annex to the present resolution;
2 RECOMMENDS Governments ensure that Integrated
Navigation Systems (INS):
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(a) if installed on or after 1 January
2011, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified
in the Annex to the present resolution; and
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(b) if installed on or after 1 January
2000 but before 1 January 2011, conform to performance standards
not inferior to those specified in the Annex 3 to resolution
MSC.86(70).