The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.96(72) – Adoption of Amendments to Performance Standards for Devices to Measure and Indicate Speed and Distance (Resolution A.824(19)) – (Adopted on 22 May 2000) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

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 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,

 HAVING CONSIDERED amendments to the existing performance standards for devices to indicate speed and distance adopted by the Assembly by resolution A.824(19) - Performance Standards for Devices to Indicate Speed and Distance, as prepared by the forty-fifth session of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation,

  1 ADOPTS the recommended amendments to resolution A.824(19) on Recommendation on Performance Standards for Devices to Indicate Speed and Distance, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2 RECOMMENDS Member Governments to ensure that:

  • (a) devices to measure and indicate speed and distance installed on or after 1 July 2002 conform to performance standards not inferior to those set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  • (b) devices to indicate speed and distance installed on and after 1 January 1997 but before 1 July 2002 conform at least to the performance standards set out in resolution A.824(19).


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