MSC.64(67) Adoption of New and Amended Performance Standards

 

Resolution MSC.64(67)

ADOPTION OF NEW AND AMENDED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

(adopted on 4 December 1996)

 

 

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.825(19), by which the Assembly resolved that the functions of adopting performance standards for radio and navigational equipment, as well as amendments thereto, shall be performed by the Maritime Safety Committee on behalf of the Organization,

 

HAVING CONSIDERED new performance standards and amendments to existing performance standards adopted by the Assembly prepared by the forty-second session of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation,

 

1. ADOPTS the following new and recommended performance standards, set out in Annexes 1 to 2 to the present resolution:

 

(a) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Integrated Bridge Systems (IBS) (Annex 1);

 

(b) Recommendation on Performance Standards for Shipborne DGPS and DGLONASS Maritime Radio Beacon Receiver Equipment (Annex 2);

 

2. ALSO ADOPTS the amendments to the following performance standards adopted by the Assembly, set out in Annexes 3 to 5 to the present resolution:

 

(a) Resolution A.342(IX) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Automatic Pilots (Annex 3);

 

(b) Resolution A.447(XII) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Radar Equipment (Annex 4);

 

(c) Resolution A.817(19) - Recommendation on Performance Standards for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) (Annex 5);

 

3. RECOMMENDS Member Governments to ensure that:

 

(a) integrated bridge systems (IBS), shipborne DGPS and DGLONASS maritime radio beacon receiver equipment and electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) installed on or after 1 January 1999 conform to performance standards not inferior to those set out in the Annexes 1, 2 and 5 to the present resolution;

 

(b) heading control systems and radar equipment installed on or after 1 January 1999 conform respectively to performance standards not inferior to those set out in Annexes 3 and 4 to the present resolution;

 

(c) automatic pilots and radar equipment installed before 1 January 1999 conform at least to the performance standards set out in resolutions A.342(IX) and A.477(XII), respectively.

 

Annex 1.

RECOMMENDATION ON PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR INTEGRATED BRIDGE SYSTEMS (IBS).

 

1. Introduction

 

1.1 An integrated bridge system (IBS) is defined as a combination of systems which are interconnected in order to allow centralized access to sensor information or command/control from workstations, with the aim of increasing safe and efficient ship's management by suitably qualified personnel.

 

1.2 IBS, in addition to meeting the functional requirements contained in applicable IMO instruments, the general requirements in resolution A.694(17)*, should comply with the following performance standards.

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 *IEC 945 Publication.

 

2. System requirement

 

The IBS should support systems performing two or more of the following operations:

 

.1 passage execution;

 

.2 communications;

 

.3 machinery control

 

.4 loading, discharging and cargo control; and

 

.5 safety and security.

 

3. General requirements

 

3.1 General

 

3.1.1 The IBS should comply with all applicable IMO requirements and