The Maritime Safety Committee,
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
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 that, in accordance with resolution A.1046(27), containing 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", the BDS satellite navigation system may be recognized as a
possible component of the world-wide radionavigation system,
NOTING that shipborne receiving equipment for the worldwide radionavigation system
should be designed to satisfy the detailed requirements of the particular system
concerned,
RECOGNIZING the need to develop performance standards for shipborne BDS receiver
equipment in order to ensure the operational reliability of such equipment and
taking into account the technological progress and experience gained,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of
Navigation, at its fifty-ninth session,
1 ADOPTS the performance standards for
shipborne BDS receiver equipment, set out in the annex to the present
resolution;
2 RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that BDS
receiver equipment installed on or after 1 July 2016 conform to performance
standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present
resolution.