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 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,

 RECALLING ALSO regulations IV/7.1.6and 14.1 of the 1988 amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, concerning radiocommunications for the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS), which require, respectively, that ships be provided with a satellite emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) and that such EPIRBs shall conform to appropriate performance standards not inferior to those adopted by the Organization,

 RECOGNIZING the need to prepare performance standards for float-free satellite EPIRBs operating through a polar-orbiting satellite system on 406 MHz to be used in the GMDSS in order to ensure the operational reliability of such equipment and to avoid, as far as practicable, adverse interaction between such equipment and other communication and navigation equipment on board ship,

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

  1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Float-Free Satellite Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) Operating on 406 MHz set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that float-free satellite EPIRBs operating on the frequency 406 MHz, which form part of the GMDSS:

  • (a) if installed on or after 23 November 1996, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present resolution;

  • (b) if installed before 23 November 1996, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to resolution A.763(18);

  • (c) if installed before 4 November 1994, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to resolution A.763(18), except that they need not be provided with the 121.5 MHz homing beacon required by 2.3.14 of part A thereof;

  3. INVITES the COSPAS-SARSAT partners to ensure that any amendments to the specification for COSPAS-SARSAT 406 MHz distress beacons are agreed with the Organization prior to their adoption;

  4. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to ensure that any proposed amendments to this resolution are agreed with the COSPAS-SARSAT partners prior to their adoption;

  5. REQUESTS ALSO the Maritime Safety Committee to review the code assignment method recommended in 4 of part B of the annex to this resolution prior to 1 February 1997;

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

Parent topic: IMO Resolution A.810(19) – Performance Standards for Float-Free Satellite Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) Operating on 406 MHz – (Adopted on 23 November 1995)
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