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The Maritime Safety Committee,

 Resolution MSC.115(73) is applicable to equipment installed on or after 1 July 2003.

Resolution MSC.74(69) 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.825(19), by which the Assembly resolved that the functions of adopting performance standards for radio and navigational equipment, as well as amendments thereto, shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee on behalf of the Organization,

 HAVING CONSIDERED new performance standards and amendments to existing performance standards adopted by the Assembly and prepared by the forty-third session of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation,

  1. ADOPTS the following new and recommended performance standards, set out in Annexes 1 to 3 to the present resolution:

  • (a) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Shipborne Combined GPS/GLONASS Receiver Equipment (Annex 1);

  • (b) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Track Control Systems (Annex 2); and

  • (c) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Universal Automatic Identification System (AIS) (Annex 3);

  2. ADOPTS ALSO the amendments to the following performance standards adopted by the Assembly, set out in Annex 4 to the present resolution:

  • (a) Resolution A.224(VII) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Echo-Sounding Equipment (Annex 4);

  3. RECOMMENDS Member Governments to ensure that:

  • (a) shipborne combined GPS/GLONASS receiver equipment, track control systems and AIS installed on or after 1 January 2000 conform to performance standards not inferior to those set out in the Annexes 1 to 3 to the present resolution;

  • (b) echo-sounding equipment installed on or after 1 January 2001 conform respectively to performance standards not inferior to those set out in Annex 4 to the present resolution;

  • (c) echo-sounding equipment installed before 1 January 2001 conform at least to the performance standards set out in resolution A.224(VII).


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