Resolucion de la organizacion maritima internacional

MSC 84/24/Add.2

ANNEX 9 RESOLUTION MSC.263(84) (adopted on 16 May 2008) REVISED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LONG-RANGE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF SHIPS 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 Procedurefor 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, RECALLING FURTHER the provisions of the new regulation V/19-1 of the International Convention for the Safety ofLife at Sea, 1974, as amended (the Convention), relating to the long-range identification and tracking of ships, ALSO RECALLING the Performance standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification and tracking of ships (the Performance standards) adopted by resolution MSC.210(81) and amended by resolution MSC.254(83), RECOGNIZING the need to adopt certain amendments to thePerformance standards, HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made, at its eighty-fourth session, 1. ADOPTS the Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification and tracking of ships, set out in the Annex to the present resolution; 2. RECOMMENDS Contracting Governments to the Convention to ensure that: .1 shipborne systems and equipment used to meet therequirements of regulation V/19-1 of the Convention conform to performance standards not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution; all Long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) Data Centres and the International LRIT Data Exchange conform to functional requirements not inferior to those specified in the Annex to the present resolution; and they promptly submit to theOrganization and to the LRIT Data Centres the required information to enable the establishment and the continuous functioning of the LRIT system and that they update such information as and when changes occur;

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MSC 84/24/Add.2 ANNEX 9 Page 2 3. AGREES to review and amend, in the light of experience gained as necessary, the Revised performance standards and functionalrequirements for the long-range identification and tracking of ships, set out in the Annex to the present resolution; 4. REVOKES resolutions MSC.210(81) and MSC.254(83).

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MSC 84/24/Add.2 ANNEX 9 Page 3 ANNEX REVISED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LONG-RANGE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF SHIPS 1 Overview

1.1 The Long-Range Identificationand Tracking (LRIT) system provides for the global identification and tracking of ships. 1.2 The LRIT system consists of the shipborne LRIT information transmitting equipment, the Communication Service Provider(s), the Application Service Provider(s), the LRIT Data Centre(s), including any related Vessel Monitoring System(s), the LRIT Data Distribution Plan and the International LRIT DataExchange. Certain aspects of the performance of the LRIT system are reviewed or audited by an LRIT Coordinator acting on behalf of all Contracting Governments. Figure 1 provides an illustration of the LRIT system architecture. Figure 1

LRIT system architecture
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