1 The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), at its
eighty-fifth session (26 November to 5 December 2008), 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 twelfth
session (7 to 11 April 2008), adopted the annexed amendments in accordance
with the procedure laid down in resolution A.894(21).
2 The Committee decided that the amendments should
enter into force on 1 June 2009.