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).
1.1
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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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.
3.1.1
The IBS should comply with all applicable IMO requirements and