The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.252(83) - Adoption of the Revised Performance Standards for Integrated Navigation Systems (INS) - (Adopted on 8 October 2007) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

 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):

  • (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

  • (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).


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