RESOLUTION MSC.301(87)

(adopted on 17 May 2010)

 

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING MANDATORY SHIP REPORTING SYSTEM IN "THE WESTERN EUROPEAN PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE SEA AREA" (WETREP)
(RESOLUTION MSC.190(79))

 

 

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

 

RECALLING article 28(b) of the Convention related to the creation of 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, 1974 (SOLAS Convention), in relation to the adoption of ship reporting systems by the Organization,

 

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 the Guidelines and criteria for ship-reporting systems, adopted by resolution MSC.43(64), as amended by resolutions MSC.111(73) and MSC.189(79),

 

HAVING NOTED that the Marine Environment Protection Committee, at its fifty-second session, endorsed the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fiftieth session and designated the Western European Waters as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) by resolution MEPC.121(52),

 

HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-fifth session,

 

1.         ADOPTS, in accordance with SOLAS regulation V/11, the amendments to the existing ship-reporting system in the Western European Particularly Sensitive Sea Area as described in the Annex to this resolution;

 

2.         DECIDES that the amendments to this mandatory ship-reporting system will enter into force at 0000 hours UTC on 1 December 2010;

 

3.         REQUESTS the Secretary-General to bring this resolution and its Annex to the attention of Contracting Governments to the SOLAS Convention and to members of the Organization who are not parties to the Convention.

 

ANNEX

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING MANDATORY SHIP-REPORTING SYSTEM IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE SEA AREA

 

 

Annex 1 of resolution MSC.190(79):

 

1          In paragraph 6.2.5, under Mandatory Ship Reporting Systems, insert:

 

"Off the coast of Portugal"

 

2          In paragraph 6.2.6, under Coastal Vessel Traffic Services (VTS), insert:

 

Coast of Portugal VTS