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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.112(73) - Adoption of the Revised Performance Standards for Shipborne Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Equipment - (Adopted on 1 December 2000) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

Resolution MSC.112(73) is applicable to equipment installed on or after 1 July 2003.

Resolution A.819(19) is applicable to equipment installed before 1 July 2003.

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 function of adopting performance standards and technical specifications, as well as amendments thereto shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee and/or the Marine Environment Protection Committee, as appropriate, on behalf of the Organization,

RECALLING FURTHER that, in accordance with resolution A.815(19) by which the Assembly adopted the IMO policy for the recognition and acceptance of suitable radionavigation systems intended for international use to provide ships with navigational position-fixing throughout their voyages, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been recognized as a possible component of the world-wide radionavigation system,

NOTING that shipborne receiving equipment for the world-wide radionavigation system should be designed to satisfy the detailed requirements of the particular system concerned,

RECOGNIZING the need to improve the previously adopted, by resolution A.819(19), performance standards for shipborne GPS receiver equipment in order to ensure the operational reliability of such equipment and taking into account the technological progress and experience gained,

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation on the revision of resolution A.819(19) made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its forty-sixth session,

1. ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on Performance Standards for Shipborne Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Equipment, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that GPS receiver equipment:

  • (a) if installed on or after 1 July 2003, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present resolution; and

  • (b) if installed before 1 July 2003, conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to resolution A.819(19).

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.112(73) - Adoption of the Revised Performance Standards for Shipborne Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Equipment - (Adopted on 1 December 2000)
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