RECALLING article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization regarding the functions of the Assembly in relation
to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.953(23), by which it adopted,
as the IMO policy on the recognition and acceptance of suitable radionavigation
systems intended for international use, the "Revised Report on the
Study of a Worldwide Radionavigation System" annexed to that resolution,
RECOGNIZING the need for a worldwide radionavigation system
to provide ships with navigational position-fixing throughout the
world,
RECOGNIZING ALSO the need to amend the aforementioned revised
report,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its eighty-eighth session,
1 ADOPTS, as the IMO policy for the recognition
and acceptance of suitable radionavigation systems intended for international
use, the "Revised Report on the Study of a Worldwide Radionavigation
System", as set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Governments to keep the Organization
informed of the operational development of any suitable radionavigation
systems conforming to the policy referred to above which might be
considered by the Organization for use by ships worldwide;
3 INVITES ALSO Governments and organizations providing
radionavigation systems to consent to recognition of these systems
by IMO;
4 REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to recognize
systems conforming with the requirements set out in the Annex to this
resolution, and to publish information on such systems;
5 REQUESTS ALSO the Maritime Safety Committee
to keep the above-mentioned revised report under review for adjustment
as necessary;
6 REVOKES resolution A.953(23).