Resolution MSC.113(73) is applicable to equipment installed on or
after 1 July 2003.
Resolution MSC.53(66) is applicable to equipment installed before 1 July
2003.
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.815(19) by which
the Assembly adopted the IMO policy for the recognition and acceptance of suitable
radionavigation systems intended for international use to provide ships with
navigational position-fixing throughout their voyages, the Global Navigation
Satellite System (GLONASS) has been recognized as a possible component of the
world-wide radionavigation system,
NOTING that shipborne receiving equipment for the world-wide
radionavigation system should be designed to satisfy the detailed requirements of
the particular system concerned,
RECOGNIZING the need to improve the previously adopted, by resolution
MSC.53(66), performance standards for shipborne GLONASS 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.53(66) made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its
forty-sixth session,
1. ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on Performance Standards for GLONASS
Receiver Equipment, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that GLONASS 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 before 1 July 2003, conform to performance
standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to resolution MSC.53(66).