3 General provisions
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3 General provisions

  3.1 It should be noted that regulation V/19-1.1 provides that:

  Nothing in this regulation or the provisions performance standards and functional requirements adopted by the Organization in relation to the long-range identification and tracking of ships shall prejudice the rights, jurisdiction or obligations of States under international law, in particular, the legal regimes of the high seas, the exclusive economic zone, the contiguous zone, the territorial seas or the straits used for international navigation and archipelagic sea lanes.

  3.2 In operating the LRIT system, recognition should be given to international conventions, agreements, rules or standards that provide for the protection of navigational information.

  3.3 The present performance standards should always be read together with regulation V/19-1 and the technical specifications for the LRIT systemfootnote.

Parent topic: Annex – Revised Performance Standards and Functional Requirements for the Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships
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