1 The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), at its
eighty-sixth session (27 May to 5 June 2009), having been informed
that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had approved
the amendments to the IAMSAR Manual prepared by the Joint ICAO/IMO
Working Group on Harmonization of Aeronautical and Maritime Search
and Rescue, and that they had been endorsed by the Sub-Committee on
Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue (COMSAR), at its thirteenth
session (19 to 23 January 2009), approved the annexed amendments in
accordance with the procedure laid down in resolution A.894(21).
2 The Committee decided that the amendments should
become applicable on 1 June 2010.