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8 Limitations during the phased-in implementation

  8.1 SAR services should note that, in simplified terms, regulation V/19-1.4.1 specifies that ships constructed on or after 31 December 2008 shall transmit LRIT information as from the date they enter service and for ships constructed before 31 December 2008 provides a phased-in implementation schedule which is dependent, inter alia, on the date on which the first survey of the radio installation of the ship becomes due after 31 December 2008 and in the case of ships which operate exclusively in sea area A4 after 1 July 2009.

  8.1.1 Thus for ships constructed before 31 December 2008:

  • .1 other than those operating exclusively within sea area A4, the phased-in implementation will end on 31 December 2009. However, in such cases if the Contracting Government is also a State Party to the 1988 SOLAS Protocol the phased-in implementation will end on 31 March 2010; and

  • .2 operating exclusively within sea area A4, the phased-in implementation will end on 1 July 2010. However, in such cases if the Contracting Government is also a State Party to the 1988 SOLAS Protocol the phased-in implementation will end on 1 October 2010.

  8.2 As a result SAR services are advised that until the end of the phased-in implementation there might be ships within the geographical area within which they are requesting the provision of LRIT information which might have not yet been integrated in the LRIT system. Thus, SAR services should not rely on the LRIT system to provide them with a complete picture of the ships in a geographical area during the phased-in implementation.

Parent topic: Annex – Guidance to Search and Rescue Services in Relation to Requesting and Receiving LRIT Information
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