RESOLUTION
MSC.63(67)
(adopted on 3 December 1996)
MANDATORY SHIP REPORTING SYSTEMS
THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO regulation V/8-I of the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974 concerning the adoption by the Organization of ship
reporting systems,
RECALLING FURTHER resolution A826(19), which authorizes the Committee
to perform the function of adopting ship reporting systems on behalf of the Organization,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Guidelines and criteria for ship reporting
systems, adopted by resolution MSC.43(64),
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Safety of
Navigation at its forty-second session,
1. ADOPTS, in accordance with SOLAS regulation V/8-I, mandatory ship
reporting systems:
- "In the Great Belt Traffic area", as described in the Annex
1 to the present resolution;
- "In the Strait of Gibraltar" traffic separation scheme
area, as described in Annex 2 to the present resolution; and
- "Off Finisterre" traffic separation scheme area, as
described in Annex 3 to the present resolution;
2. DECIDES that the mandatory ship reporting system:
- "In the Great Belt Traffic area" will enter into force at
0000 hours UTC on 3 June 1997
- "In the Strait of Gibraltar" traffic separation scheme area
will enter into force at 0000 hours UTC on 3 June 1997; and
- "Off Finisterre" traffic separation scheme area will enter
into force at 0000 UTC on 3 June 1997;
3. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to bring this resolution and its
Annexes to the attention of Members of the Organization and Contracting Governments to the
1974 SOLAS Convention.
