The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.246(83) - Adoption of Performance Standards for Survival Craft AIS Search and Rescue Transmitters (AIS-SART) for Use in Search and Rescue Operations - (Adopted on 8 October 2007) - 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) on Procedure for the adoption of, and amendments to, performance standards and technical specifications, by which the Assembly resolved that the function of adoption performance standards and technical specifications, as well as amendments thereto shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee,

 RECOGNIZING that new designs of radar are being introduced which do not employ traditional pulsed technology,

 RECOGNIZING ALSO that ships are now fitted with an automatic identification system (AIS),

 NOTING the results of operational trials on AIS Search and Rescue Transmitter (AIS-SART) reported by Governments,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue at its eleventh session, and the Maritime Safety Committee at its eighty-third session,

  1 ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for survival craft AIS Search and Rescue Transmitter (AIS-SART) for Use in Search and Rescue Operations set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2 RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that AIS-SARTs used in search and rescue operations installed on or after 1 January 2010 conform to the performance standards not inferior to those set out in annex to the present resolution.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.246(83) - Adoption of Performance Standards for Survival Craft AIS Search and Rescue Transmitters (AIS-SART) for Use in Search and Rescue Operations - (Adopted on 8 October 2007)
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