The Maritime Safety Committee,
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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 and/or the Marine Environment Protection Committee, as appropriate, on behalf of the Organization,

 RECALLING FURTHER that, by resolution A.861(20), the Assembly, at its twentieth session, adopted Performance standards for shipborne voyage data recorders (VDRs), which were amended by resolution MSC.214(81), adopted by the Committee, at its eighty-first session,

 RECOGNIZING the need to revise the performance standards for VDRs to assist in investigations into casualties,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation, at its fifty-seventh session,

  1 ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on performance standards for voyage data recorders (VDRs), set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  2 RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that VDRs:

  • .1 if installed on or after 1 July 2014, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present resolution; and

  • .2 if installed before 1 July 2014, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to resolution A.861(20), as amended by resolution MSC.214(81).

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.333(90) – Adoption of Revised Performance Standards for Shipborne Voyage Data Recorders (VDRs) – (Adopted on 22 May 2012)This Resolution applies to VDRs installed on or after 01 July 2014.
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