RESOLUTION A.664(16)
adopted on 19 October 1989

     
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR ENHANCED GROUP CALL EQUIPMENT

THE ASSEMBLY,

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

RECOGNIZING the need to prepare 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 the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its fifty-fifth session

1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Enhanced Group Call Equipment, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

2. NOTES that part A of the INMARSAT design and installation guidelines for enhanced group call equipment 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));