SUB-COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF
NAVIGATION -
45th session
Agenda item 13
NAV 45/13
25 June 1999
Original: ENGLISH
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCPs)
Note by the Secretariat
SUMMARY
Executive summary: This document provides guidance for the work of NAV 45 with regard to the IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCPs)
Action to be taken: Paragraph 7.
Related documents: MSC/Circ.794, MSC 71/23, paragraphs 20.29 and 20.33.
Background
1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-eighth session (28 May to 6 June 1997) considered draft "Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCPs)" prepared by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation and approved their dissemination by MSC/Circ.794. MSC 68 also invited Member Governments and international organisations concerned to conduct trials using the SMCPs and to report the results of such trials well in advance for consideration by NAV 45, in order that it could, in co-operation with the COMSAR and STW Sub-Committees, finalize the SMCPs.
2 MSC 68 also considered that following this, a suitable draft Assembly resolution could be prepared for submission to the twenty-second session of the Assembly for adoption.
3 MSC 71 instructed NAV 45 to include, in the provisional agenda for NAV 46, an item on "IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases".
4 Accordingly, NAV 45 is expected to give initial consideration to the results of the trials on the basis of information thus far received by the Secretariat.
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