RESOLUTION A.661(16)
adopted on 19 October 1989

     
     
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR FLOAT-FREE SATELLITE EMERGENCY
POSITION-INDICATING RADIO BEACONS OPERATING THROUGH THE
GEOSTATIONARY INMARSAT SATELLITE SYSTEM ON 1.6 GHz

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 float-free satellite EPIRBs operating through the geostationary INMARSAT satellite system on 1.6 GHz 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-fifth session,

1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Float-Free Satellite EPIRBs Operating through the Geostationary INMARSAT Satellite System on 1.6 GHz, the text of which is set out in the Annex to this resolution;