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The Assembly,

 See Resolution MSC.232(82) for ECDIS equipment installed on or after 1 January 2009

RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,

 RECALLING ALSO regulation V/20 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, which requires all ships to carry adequate and up-to-date charts, sailing directions, lists of lights, notices to mariners, tide tables and all other nautical publications necessary for the intended voyage,

 NOTING that the up-to-date charts required by SOLAS regulation V/20 can be provided and displayed electronically on board ships by electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS), and that the other nautical publications required by regulation V/20 may also be so provided and displayed,

 RECOGNIZING the need to prepare performance standards for ECDIS in order to ensure the operational reliability of such equipment, and to ensure that the information provided and displayed electronically is at least equivalent to that of up-to-date charts and, when also provided and displayed, other nautical publications, and to avoid, as far as practicable, adverse interaction between ECDIS and other shipborne navigational and communication equipment,

 NOTING FURTHER that the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has, in co-operation with IMO, developed complementary recommendations on electronic navigational charts, thereby standardizing the database and the content, structure and format of the information provided and displayed,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its sixty-third session,

  1 ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  2 RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that ECDIS used on ships entitled to fly their flag conform to performance standards not inferior to those set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  3 REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep these Performance Standards under review and to adopt amendments thereto, as necessary;

  4 ALSO REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to ensure that any proposed amendments to this resolution are agreed with IHO prior to adoption.

Parent topic: IMO Resolution A.817(19) – Performance Standards for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) – (Adopted on 23 November 1995)
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