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,
BEARING IN MIND the provisions of regulation V/19-1 of the International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea, 1974 (the Convention), relating to the long-range
identification and tracking of ships, and the Revised performance
standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification
and tracking of ships (Revised performance standards), adopted by resolution MSC.263(84),
NOTING that, at its eighty-eighth session, it had concurred
with the establishment of a cost model for the provision of LRIT information,
as from 3 December 2010 (the "US$0.25 1:2:6" cost model, i.e. single
LRIT position report: US$0.25, polled LRIT position report: US$0.50,
and changes of the rate of transmission: US$3.00 (US$1.50 x 2)),
NOTING ALSO that, at its eighty-ninth session, it had agreed
that, due to the establishment of the above-mentioned cost model,
the master list maintained by the International LRIT Data Exchange
related to charges levied by LRIT Data Centres when providing LRIT
information was no longer necessary,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninetieth session, the need to
adopt certain amendments to the Revised performance standards,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the Revised performance
standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification
and tracking of ships (resolution MSC.263(84)),
the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention
to bring the above amendments to the attention of all parties concerned.