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:
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(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
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(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.