1 Introduction
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Assembly - IMO Resolution A.694(17) – General Requirements for Shipborne Radio Equipment Forming Part of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and for Electronic Navigational Aids – (Adopted on 6 November 1991) - Annex - Recommendation on General Requirements for Shipborne Radio Equipment Forming Part of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and for Electronic Navigational Aids - 1 Introduction

1 Introduction

  1.1 Equipment, which:

  • .1 forms part of the global maritime distress and safety system; or

  • .2 is required by Regulation V/12 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention as amended and other electronic navigational aids, where appropriate;

should comply with the following general requirements and with all applicable performance standards adopted by the Organization.

  1.2 Where a unit of equipment provides a facility which is additional to the minimum requirements of this Recommendation, the operation and, as far as is reasonably practicable, the malfunction of such additional facility should not degrade the performance of the equipment specified in 1.1.

Parent topic: Annex - Recommendation on General Requirements for Shipborne Radio Equipment Forming Part of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and for Electronic Navigational Aids
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