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The Maritime Safety Committee

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 RECALLING ALSO regulation V/8-1 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974 concerning the adoption by the Organization of ship reporting systems,

 RECALLING FURTHER resolution A.858(20) which authorizes the Committee to perform the function of adopting ship reporting systems on behalf of the Organization,

 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Guidelines and criteria for ship reporting systems adopted by resolution MSC.43(64),

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its forty-fourth session,

  1. ADOPTS, in accordance with SOLAS regulation V/8-1, the mandatory ship reporting systems:

  • Off the northeastern and the southeastern coasts of the United States area described in Annex 1 to the present resolution; and
  • In the Strait of Dover/Pas-de-Calais area described in Annex 2.

  2. DECIDES that the aforementioned mandatory ship reporting systems will enter into force at 0000 hours UTC on 1 July 1999.

  3. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to bring this resolution and its Annexes to the attention of Member Governments and Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention.


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