THE ASSEMBLY ,

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

RECOGNISING that ship earth stations should be type approved to ensure their operational reliability and to avoid adverse interaction between this equipment and other communication and navigational equipment aboard ship,

FURTHER RECOGNISING the value of the centralised type approval conducted by the International Maritime Satellite Organisation (INMARSAT) in minimising the duplication of effort in type approval,

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its fiftieth session,

1. RECOMMENDS Member Governments to accept type approval of ship earth stations by INMARSAT as sufficient for their national type acceptance of such equipment, in respect of those aspects relating to the INMARSAT technical requirements;

2. REQUESTS INMARSAT, at the invitation of interested Administrations:

(a) to encourage manufacturers to include tests covering additional national requirements of those Administrations in the INMARSAT type approval testing;
(b) to certify that such additional tests have been successfully performed, in order to facilitate national type acceptance procedures.