RESOLUTION A.698(17)
adopted on 6 November 1991

     
     
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR SHIP EARTH STATIONS CAPABLE
OF TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS

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,

RECALLING ALSO regulations IV/10.1 and IV/14.1 of the 1988 amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning radiocommunications for the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) which require respectively that ships remaining in sea area A3 be provided with an INMARSAT ship earth station and that such ship earth stations shall conform to appropriate performance standards not inferior to those adopted by the Organization,

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

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