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,
NOTING that differential services broadcast information
for augmenting the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Global
Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) to provide the accuracy and
integrity required for entrances and harbour approaches and other
waters in which the freedom to manoeuvre is limited,
NOTING ALSO that shipborne maritime radio beacon receiving
equipment providing augmentation information to position-fixing equipment
should be designed to satisfy the detailed requirements of the particular
system concerned,
RECOGNIZING the need to improve the previously adopted,
by resolution MSC.64(67), Annex 2,
performance standards for shipborne DGPS and DGLONASS maritime radio
beacon 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 on the revision of
resolution MSC.64(67), Annex 2 made
by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its forty-sixth session,
1. ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on Performance
Standards for Shipborne DGPS and DGLONASS Maritime Radio Beacon Receiver
Equipment, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that DGPS
and DGLONASS maritime radio beacon receiver equipment:
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(a) if installed on or after 1 July 2003, conform
to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution; and
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(b) if installed on or after 1 January 1999 but
before 1 July 2003, conform to performance standards not inferior
to those specified in the Annex to resolution MSC.64(67), Annex 2.