Resolution MSC.162(78)

Amendments to the Existing Mandatory Ship Reporting System off Cape Finisterre

(adopted on 17 May 2004)

 

 

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

 

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

 

RECALLING ALSO regulation V/11 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974 concerning the adoption by the Organization of ship reporting systems,

 

RECALLING FURTHER resolution A.858(20) which authorizes the Committee to perform the function of adopting ship reporting systems on behalf of the Organization,

 

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT of the amendments to the existing Guidelines and criteria for ship reporting systems adopted by resolution MSC.43(64), as amended by resolution MSC.111(73),

 

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its forty-ninth session,

 

1. ADOPTS, in accordance with SOLAS regulation V/11, the amendments to the existing mandatory ship reporting system Off Cape Finisterre , as described in the Annex to the present resolution;

 

2. DECIDES that the said amendments to the existing mandatory ship reporting system will enter into force at 0000 hours UTC on 1 December 2004;

 

3. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to bring this resolution and its Annex to the attention of Member Governments and Contracting Governments to the SOLAS Convention.

 

ANNEX.

AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING MANDATORY SHIP REPORTING SYSTEM OFF CAPE FINISTERRE