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 Resolution MSC.36(63) by
which the Maritime Safety Committee, on 20 May 1994, adopted the International
Code of Safety for High Speed Craft (HSC Code),
RECALLING FURTHER resolution 1 by which the conference of
Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS), on 24 May 1994 adopted amendments to
the 1974 SOLAS Convention, including a new chapter
X on Safety measures for high speed craft, which make the provisions
of the HSC Code mandatory under that Convention for all such craft
constructed on or after 1 January 1996,
BEARING IN MIND that section 13.13,
chapter 13 of the HSC Code requires that all navigational equipment
to which this chapter applies should conform to performance standards
not inferior to those adopted by the Organization,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at it sixty-fourth session,
1. ADOPTS the Performance Standards for Navigational
Radar Equipment for High Speed Craft, set out in the Annex to the
present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that navigational
radar equipment required to be carried on high speed craft conform
to performance standards not inferior to those set out in the Annex
to the present resolution.