RESOLUTION A.699(17)
adopted on 6 November 1991

     
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR THE PROMULGATION AND CO-ORDINATION OF MARITIME SAFETY INFORMATION USING HIGH-FREQUENCY NARROW-BAND DIRECT PRINTING

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 regulation V/2 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS), which establishes the requirement for promulgating information on direct dangers to navigation,

NOTING Assembly resolution A.700(17), which establishes standards on the promulgation of maritime safety information using a variety of radio teleprinting techniques, including high-frequency (HF) narrow-band direct printing (NBDP),

BEARING IN MIND regulation IV/7.1.5 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended by the 1988 GMDSS Conference, which states that "ships engaged exclusively on voyages in areas where an HF direct-printing telegraphy maritime safety information service is provided and fitted with equipment capable of receiving such service, may be exempt from this [INMARSAT enhanced group calling] requirement",