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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.214(81) - Adoption of Amendments to the Performance Standards for VDRS (Resolution A.861(20)) and Performance Standards for S-VDRS (Resolution MSC.163(78)) - (Adopted on 12 May 2006) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of Committee,

 RECALLING ALSO resolution A.886(21), by which the Assembly resolved that the functions of adopting performance standards for radio and navigational equipment, as well as amendments thereto, shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee on behalf of the Organization,

 HAVING CONSIDERED resolution A.861(20) on Performance standards for shipborne voyage data recorders (VDRs) and resolution MSC.163(78) on Performance standards for shipborne simplified voyage data recorders (S-VDRs) and reviewed requirements for extracting stored data from VDRs and S-VDRs,

 RECOGNIZING that, after an accident, there is a need for the investigators to be able to download the stored data and playback the information from VDRs/S-VDRs without delay,

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

  1. ADOPTS the amendments to the Recommendations on performance standards for shipborne voyage data recorders (VDRs) and the Recommendation on performance standards for simplified voyage data recorders (S-VDRs), set out in Annexes 1 and 2, respectively, to the present resolution;

  2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that VDRs and S-VDRs:

  • (a) if fitted before 1 June 2008, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annexes to resolutions A.861(20) and MSC.163(78), respectively; and

  • (b) if fitted on or after 1 June 2008, conform additionally to the amendments to performance standards not inferior to those specified in Annexes 1 and 2 to the present resolution.


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