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The Maritime Safety Committee,

 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, should be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee on behalf of the Organization,

 RECOGNIZING the need for performance standards for enhanced group call equipment in order to ensure the operational reliability of such equipment and to avoid, as far as practicable, adverse interaction between such equipment and other communication and navigation equipment aboard the ship,

 HAVING CONSIDERED at its eighty-seventh session the recommendation made by the Sub- Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue, at its fourteenth session,

  1. ADOPTS the Revised Performance Standards for enhanced group call equipment, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2. NOTES that Annex B (System specific guidelines for Inmarsat-C) of the Inmarsat design and installation guidelines is similar to the present performance standards for enhanced group call equipment and to the performance standards for shipborne radio equipment – general requirements (resolution A.694(17));

  3. INVITES Inmarsat to ensure that any amendments to Annex B (System specific guidelines for Inmarsat-C) of the Inmarsat design and installation guidelines be agreed with the Organization prior to their implementation;

  4. RESOLVES to ensure that any proposed amendments to the present performance standards be agreed with IMSO prior to their adoption;

  5. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that EGC equipment:

  • .1 if installed on or after 1 July 2012, conforms to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the annex to the present resolution; and

  • .2 if installed before 1 July 2012, conforms to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to resolution A.664(16).

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.306(87) – Revised Performance Standards for Enhanced Group Call (EGC) Equipment – (Adopted on 17 May 2010)
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