RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organisation concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.825(19), 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,
RECALLING FURTHER regulation
IV/7.5 of the International Convention on the Safety of Life
at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended by the 1995 SOLAS Conference, which
requires every passenger ship to carry means for two-way on-scene
radiocommunications for search and rescue purposes using aeronautical
frequencies 121.5 MHz and 123.1 MHz,
HAVING CONSIDERED new performance standards prepared at
the third session of the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and
Search and Rescue,
1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards
for On-Scene (Aeronautical) Portable Two-Way VHF Radiotelephone Apparatus
and the Recommendation on Performance Standards for On-Scene (Aeronautical)
Two-Way VHF Radiotelephone Apparatus for Fixed Installations, set
out in Annexes 1 and 2, respectively, to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Member Governments to ensure that
on-scene (aeronautical) two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus for use
in search and rescue operations installed on or after 1 July 2001
conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in
the attached Annexes.