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Resolution A.617(15)
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(Adopted on 19 November 1987)
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NAVTEX SYSTEM AS A COMPONENT OF THE WORLD-WIDE NAVIGATIONAL WARNING SERVICE
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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,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.419(XI) by which it established the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service.
RECALLING ADDITIONALLY resolution A.420(XI) concerning development of the maritime distress and safety system,
RECALLING FURTHER resolution A.525(13) by which it adopted performance standards for narrow- band direct-printing telegraph equipment for the reception of navigational and meteorological warnings and urgent information to ships,
BEARING IN MIND the decisions of the Xlth and XlIth International Hydrographic Conference,
BEARING IN MIND ALSO Recommendation 540-1 of the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of ITU ,
BEARING IN MIND FURTHER that the World Administrative Radio Conference for the Mobile Services, 1987, allocated the frequency 518 kHz for the international NAVTEX system, as well as the frequencies 490 kHz and 4209.5 kHz for other NAVTEX-type systems; NOTING that a number of countries are currently providing a NAVTEX service to ships operating in coastal waters,
NOTING ALSO that the Maritime Safety Committee has identified functional requirements and draft carriage requirements for the maritime distress and safety system which include the use of the NAVTEX system,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its fiftieth, fifty- first and fifty-second sessions, |
1. ADOPTS the automated direct-printing telegraph system for promulgation of navigational and meteorological warnings and urgent information to ships (NAVTEX) as a component of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service on the basis of the recommendation set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2. INVITES Member Governments to commence NAVTEX broadcasts as soon as practicable, in accordance with resolution A.420(XI) and the present resolution, to serve those coastal areas where the safety of navigation warrants such a service;
3. ALSO INVITES Member Governments wishing to establish, augment or alter any NAVTEX service to forward all relevant information to the Organisation;
4. FURTHER INVITES Member Governments to encourage their ships to be fitted as soon as practicable with NAVTEX equipment which conforms to performance standards not inferior to those specified in resolution A.525(13);
5. AUTHORISES the Maritime Safety Committee to agree to such departures from the principles and standards set out in the Recommendation annexed to the present resolution as it may deem necessary in individual cases to serve the interests of safety of navigation;
6. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the Recommendation under review in the light of experience gained in its application and to report as necessary to the Assembly.
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Annex
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RECOMMENDATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF NAVTEX SERVICES
(contents superseded by NAVTEX Manual)
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