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LRIT REVIEW AND AUDIT STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR AUDITING THE PERFORMANCE OF LRIT DATA CENTRES AND THE INTERNATIONAL LRIT DATA EXCHANGE (as agreed by the Twenty-Fifth Session of the IMSO Advisory Committee) 1. Introduction 11.1 The International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) was appointed by the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as the LRIT Coordinator and assigned to perform the tasks specified in section 14 of resolution MSC.263(84), Revised Performance Standards and Functional Requirements for the LRIT of Ships. These tasks include: .1 reviewing the performance of the LRIT system in general; .2 auditing the performance of all LRIT Data Centres (DC) and the International LRIT Data Exchange (IDE) based on their archived information; and .3 reporting on the audit of the performance of the DC(s) and the IDE, to the MSC at least annually. 1.2 The purpose of these standards and procedures is to set out the general arrangements for the annual audit and review of LRIT DCs and the IDE and the specific detailed actions needed to be followed by LRIT DCs and the IDE when being reviewed and audited by the LRIT Coordinator. 1.3 The audit and review process will be carried out generally in accordance with the principles of ISO 19011:2002 on Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing; and specifically in accordance with the Principles and guidelines ...