Radionavigation equipment - 5.8
5.8
Resolution MSC.64(67) - Adopted on 4 December 1996
ADOPTION OF NEW AND AMENDED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
THE MARIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.825(79), 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.
HAVINC CONSIDERED new performance standards and amendments to existing performance standards adopted by the Assembly prepared by the forty-second session of the Sub-committee on Safety of Navigation,
1. ADOPTS the following new and recommended performance standards, set out in annexes I to 2 to the present resolution:*
(a) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Integrated Bridge Systems (IBS) (annex 1);
(b) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Shipborne DGPS and - DGLONASS Maritime Radio Beacon Receiver Equipment (annex 2);
2. ALSO ADOPTS the amendments to the following performance standards adopted by the Assembly, set out in annexes 3 to 5 to the present resolution:*
(a) Resolution A.342(IX) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Automatic Pilots (annex 3);
(b) Resolution A.447(XII) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Radar Equipment (annex 4);
(c) Resolution A.817(19) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) (annex 5);
3. RECOMMENDS Member Governments to ensure that:
(a) integrated bridge systems (IBS), shipborne DGPS and DCLONASS maritime radio beacon receiver equipment and electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS) installed on or after I .January 1999 conform to performance standards not inferior to those set out in annexes 1,2 and 5 to the present resolution; *
*Note: Only annex 2 to resolution MSC64(67) is reproduced here. The other annexes are reproduced in the relevant chapters of the present publication.
