RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and
guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO regulation V/2 of the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS), which establishes the requirement for promulgating
information on direct dangers to navigation,
NOTING resolution A.706(17) on the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service,
RECALLING FURTHER regulation V/4 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention which
establishes the requirement for promulgating maritime meteorological information,
BEARING IN MIND the 1988 amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning
radiocommunications for the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS),
BEARING IN MIND ALSO the work of the Organization in developing
co-ordinated world-wide search and rescue facilities,
NOTING ADDITIONALLY that the Organization has adopted carriage requirements
and performance standards for specialized systems for receiving maritime safety
information on ships subject to the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended,
NOTING ALSO that some of the present means of transmitting maritime safety
information will no longer be effective under the GMDSS,
NOTING FURTHER that Governments may, at their discretion, implement and
operate other additional means of promulgation of maritime safety information to meet
national requirements,
RECOGNIZING that international co-operation and co-ordination are essential
for the satisfactory maintenance of maritime safety information services and that such
services make a vital contribution to the safety of life at sea,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its
fifty-ninth session,
1. RESOLVES that the procedures for the provision and promulgation of maritime safety
information should be in accordance with the Recommendation on Promulgation of Maritime
Safety Information set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2. URGES Governments to co-operate in providing maritime safety information in
accordance with the structure established by the said Recommendation.