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The Maritime Safety Committee

 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,

 RECOGNIZING that, many operational bridge-related marine accidents could be averted if an effective and operational bridge navigational watch alarm system (BNWAS) was fitted to vessels,

 RECOGNIZING FURTHER that, by the use of a Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS) warnings will be given in case of the incapacity of the watchkeeping officer due to accident, sickness or in the event of a security breach, e.g. piracy and/or hijacking,

 NOTING that the installation of such equipment is a relatively low-cost and an effective means of avoiding operational navigational accidents,

 RECOGNIZING the need to prepare appropriate performance standards for BNWASs,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation on the performance standards for BNWASs made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its forty-seventh session,

  1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for a Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that BNWASs installed on or after 1 July 2003, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.128(75) - Performance Standards for a Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS) - (adopted on 20 May 2002)
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