RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.886(21), by which the
Assembly resolved that the function of adopting performance standards
and technical specifications, as well as amendments thereto shall
be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee and/or the
Marine Environment Protection Committee, as appropriate, on behalf
of the Organization,
RECALLING FURTHER Rule 21, Rule 23 and Rule 34(b)
of the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing
Collisions at sea (COLREGs), 1972, concerning the requirements
on the use of Navigation Lights,
NOTING that the purpose of Navigation Lights is to identify
ships and to notify their intentions at sea and that the purpose
of Navigation Light Controllers is to provide means of control
and monitoring of the status of navigation lights onboard the vessel
to the Officer of the Watch (OOW),
RECOGNIZING the need to develop performance standards for
Navigation Lights, Navigation Light Controllers and associated equipment
to be fitted onboard vessels in accordance with COLREGs,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee
on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-third session, and the
Maritime Safety Committee at its eighty-third session,
1 ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards
for Navigation Lights, Navigation Light Controllers and associated
equipment, set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 RECOMMENDS Governments ensure that Navigation
Lights, Navigation Light Controllers and associated equipment
installed on or after 1 January 2009 conform to performance
standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present
resolution.