The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.190(79) - Adoption of Mandatory Ship Reporting System in the Western European Particularly Sensitive Sea Area - (Adopted on 6 December 2004) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

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 (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 the 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 fiftieth session,

 HAVING ALSO 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),

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

  2. DECIDES that this mandatory ship-reporting system will enter into force at 0000 hours UTC on 1 July 2005;

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


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