RESOLUTION MSC.330(90)

(adopted on 25 May 2012)

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE REVISED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

AND FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LONG-RANGE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF SHIPS (RESOLUTION MSC.263(84))

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.886(21) on Procedure for the adoption of, and amendments to, performance standards and technical specifications, by which the Assembly resolved that the function of adopting performance standards and technical specifications, as well as amendments thereto shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee,

BEARING IN MIND the provisions of regulation V/19-1 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (the Convention), relating to the long-range identification and tracking of ships, and the Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification and tracking of ships (Revised performance standards), adopted by resolution MSC.263(84),

NOTING that, at its eighty-eighth session, it had concurred with the establishment of a cost model for the provision of LRIT information, as from 3 December 2010 (the "US$0.25 1:2:6" cost model, i.e. single LRIT position report: US$0.25, polled LRIT position report: US$0.50, and changes of the rate of transmission: US$3.00 (US$1.50 x 2)),

NOTING ALSO that, at its eighty-ninth session, it had agreed that, due to the establishment of the above-mentioned cost model, the master list maintained by the International LRIT Data Exchange related to charges levied by LRIT Data Centres when providing LRIT information was no longer necessary,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninetieth session, the need to adopt certain amendments to the Revised performance standards, 

1.            ADOPTS amendments to the Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification and tracking of ships (resolution MSC.263(84)), the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2.            INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention to bring the above amendments to the attention of all parties concerned.

ANNEX

AMENDMENTS TO THE REVISED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LONG RANGE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF SHIPS (RESOLUTION MSC.263(84))

1                 The existing subparagraph 7.4.3 is deleted.