RESOLUTION A.524(13)
adopted on 17 November 1983

     
     
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR VHF MULTIPLE WATCH FACILITIES

THE ASSEMBLY,

RECALLING Article 16(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations concerning maritime safety,

BEARING IN MIND the provisions of regulation 8, chapter IV of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended in 1981,

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its forty-eighth session,

1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for VHF Multiple Watch Facilities set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that shipborne equipment fitted with VHF multiple watch facilities conforms to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution.