Preamble

The delegates of the following Members of the International Telecommunication Union:

People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Federal Republic of Germany, People's Republic of Angola, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Austria, State of Bahrain, Belgium, People's Republic of Benin, People's Republic of Bulgaria, Republic of Cameroon, Republic of Cyprus, Republic of the Ivory Coast, Denmark, Arab Republic of Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Republic of Guinea, Hungarian People's Republic, Republic of Iraq, Ireland, State of Israel, Italy. Republic of Kenya, State of Kuwait, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Democratic Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Malta, Kingdom of Morocco, Monaco, Norway, Sultanate of Oman, Kingdom of the Netherlands, People's Republic of Poland, Portugal, State of Qatar, German Democratic Republic, Socialist Republic of Romania, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Sweden, Confederation of Switzerland, Republic of Chad, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

meeting in Geneva for a Regional Administrative Radio Conference convened under the terms of Article 7 of the International Telecommunication Convention, Nairobi, 1982, have adopted subject to the approval of the competent authorities of their respective countries the following provisions relating to the maritime mobile service and the aeronautical radionavigation (radiobeacon) service in Region 1.

Article 1

Definitions

For the purpose of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings defined below:

1.1 Union: The International Telecommunication Union;

1.2 Secretary-General: The Secretary-General of the Union;

1.3 IFRB: The International Frequency Registration Board (also referred to as the Board);

1.4 CCIR: The International Radio Consultative Committee;

1.5 ICAO: The International Civil Aviation Organization;

1.6 Convention: The International Telecommunication Convention, Nairobi, 1982;

1.7 Radio Regulations: The Radio Regulations, Geneva, 1979, as revised by the WARC MOB-83, annexed to the Convention;

1.8 Region 1: The geographical area defined in No. 393 of the Radio Regulations;

1.9 Agreement: The whole of this Agreement including its Annexes;

1.10 Plans: The Plans forming Annexes 1 and 2 to this Agreement;

1.11 Contracting Member: Any Member of the Union which has approved or acceded to this Agreement;

1.12 Administration: Any governmental department or service responsible for discharging the obligations undertaken in the International Telecommunication Convention and the Radio Regulations;

1.13 Pairing (as applied to the Plans for the maritime mobile service): A method of assigning two frequencies, one to be used by a coast station for transmission when communicating with ships, the other to be assigned to the same coast station for reception, to be used by ships for transmission when communicating with that coast station;

1.14 Assignment in conformity with the Agreement: Any frequency assignment appearing in any of the Plans or any frequency assignment for which the procedure of Article 4 has been successfully applied.

Article 2

Frequency Bands

2.1 The provisions of this Agreement apply in Region 1 to the following services in the bands allocated to them under Article 8 of the Radio Regulations:

a) 415-435 kHz allocated to the aeronautical radionavigation service on a primary basis and to the maritime mobile service on a permitted basis;

b) 435-495 and 505-526.5 kHz allocated to the maritime mobile service on a primary basis;

c) 505-526.5 kHz allocated to the aeronautical radionavigation service on a permitted basis;

d) 1 606.5-1 625 kHz, 1 635-1 800 kHz and 2 045-2 160 kHz allocated to the maritime mobile service on a primary basis.

These provisions also apply to:

e) Fixed and land mobile services to which the bands 1 606.5-1 625 kHz, 1 636-1 800 kHz and 2 045-2 160 kHz are allocated on a permitted basis (primary in the countries listed in No 483 of the Radio Regulations);

f) the radiodetermination service (No. 484), after successful application of the procedure of Article 14 of the Radio Regulations.

Article 3

Execution of this Agreement

3.1 The Contracting Members shall adopt, for their stations in the aeronautical radionavigation service operating in Region 1 in the frequency bands referred to in this Agreement, the characteristics specified in the Plan in Annex 2.

3.2 The Contracting Members shall adopt, for their stations in the maritime mobile service operating in Region 1 in the frequency bands referred to in this Agreement, the characteristics specified in the Plan in Annex 1.

3.3 The Contracting Members shall not bring assignments complying with the Plans into use, modify the technical characteristics of stations specified in the Plans, or bring new stations into use, except under the conditions specified in Articles 4 and 5 of this Agreement.

3.4 When assigning frequencies to stations of primary and permitted services in the bands 1 606.5-1 625 kHz, 1 635-1 800 kHz and 2 045-2 160 kHz, Contracting Members shall take account of the frequency assignments to stations of the maritime mobile service which are in conformity with the Agreement or for which the modification procedure contained in Article 4 has been initiated.

3.5 The Contracting Members shall endeavour to coordinate their efforts with a view to reducing any harmful interference that may result from the application of this Agreement.

3.6 In order to avoid mutual interference between stations in the Plan, Administrations shall take all necessary and practicable steps to ensure that the frequencies used for radiotelephony in the bands 1 635-1 800 kHz and 2045-2 141.5 kHz are used only within the coverage area specified in the Plan.

Article 4

Procedure for Modifications to the Plans

SECTION A - GENERAL

4.1 When a Contracting Member proposes to make a modification to a Plan:

a) by modifying the characteristics of a station of the maritime mobile service or the aeronautical radionavigation service shown in the appropriate Plan, whether or not the station has been brought into use; or

b) by bringing into use an assignment to a station of the maritime mobile service or the aeronautical radionavigation service not appearing in any of the appropriate Plans; or

c) by modifying the characteristics of a frequency assignment to a station of the maritime mobile service or the aeronautical radionavigation service for which the procedure in this article has been successfully applied, whether or not the station has been brought into use; or;

d) by deleting from the appropriate Plan a frequency assignment to a station of the maritime mobile service or the aeronautical radionavigation service;

the following procedure shall be applied before any notification is made under Article 12 of the Radio Regulations (see Article 5 of this Agreement).

SECTION B - PROCEDURE FOR THE MARITIME MOBILE SERVICE

Procedure for modifying the characteristics of an assignment or for bringing into use a new assignment

4.2 The provisions of this section apply equally to transmitting and receiving coast stations. The agreement referred to in this section shall apply to pairs of frequencies as indicated in Annex 3.

4.3 An administration proposing to modify the characteristics of an assignment or to bring an additional assignment into use shall, either directly or through the IFRB, seek the agreement of all other administrations whose assignments may be affected.

4.4 For the purposes of this procedure, these other administrations shall be any which have:

a) assignments in the Plans for the same frequency band and whose service may be affected according to the criteria specified in Annex 5 to this Agreement;