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:
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(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;
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(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).