RESOLUTION A.612(15)
adopted on 19 November 1987

     
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR FLOAT-FREE VHF EMERGENCY
POSITION-INDICATING RADIO BEACONS

THE ASSEMBLY,

RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,

RECOGNIZING the need to prepare performance standards for VHF EPIRBs to be used in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) 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 ship,

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its fifty-fourth session,

1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for VHF EPIRBS, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

2. RECOMMENDS Member Governments to ensure that VHF EPIRBs which will form part of the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution.