1 The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), at its
eighty-seventh session (12 to 21 May 2010), recognizing the recent
proliferation of non-406 MHz locating, tracking and emergency notification
devices and the challenges these devices present to SAR services,
approved the information on the availability of commercially available
locating, tracking and emergency notification devices and services,
prepared by the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and
Rescue (COMSAR), at its fourteenth session, as set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to bring the
annexed guidance to the attention of all parties concerned.