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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.191(79) - Performance Standards for the Presentation of Navigation-Related Information on Shipborne Navigational Displays - (Adopted on 6 December 2004) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

 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 on behalf of the Organization,

 RECOGNIZING that harmonization of the requirements for the presentation of navigation-related information on the bridge will ensure that all navigational displays adopt a consistent human-machine interface philosophy and implementation,

 RECOGNIZING FURTHER that, for safety reasons, the terms, abbreviations and symbols used for the display of navigation-related information on all shipborne navigation equipment and systems should be consistent,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation on the performance standards for the presentation of navigation-related information on shipborne navigational displays made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fiftieth session,

  1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for the Presentation of Navigation-related Information on Shipborne Navigational Displays, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that navigational shipborne displays on the bridge of a ship installed on or after 1 July 2008 conform, from the presentation of navigation-related information point of view, to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.191(79) - Performance Standards for the Presentation of Navigation-Related Information on Shipborne Navigational Displays - (Adopted on 6 December 2004)
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