AMENDMENTS TO THE OPERATING AGREEMENT ON THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SATELLITE ORGANIZATION (INMARSAT)
(h)
Determination of arrangements for consultation on a continuing basis with bodies recognized by the Council as representing shipowners, aircraft and land transport operators, maritime, aeronautical and land transport personnel and other users of maritime, aeronautical and other mobile telecommunications.
ARTICLE V Investment Shares
Article V, paragraph (2) is replaced by the following text:
(2)
For the purpose of determining investment shares, utilization in both directions shall be divided into two equal parts, a mobile earth station part and a land part. The part associated with the ship or aircraft or mobile earth station on land where the traffic originates or terminates shall be attributed to the Signatory of the Party under whose authority the ship or aircraft or mobile earth station on land is operating. The part associated with the land territory where the traffic originates or terminates shall be attributed to the Signatory of the Party in whose territory the traffic originates or terminates. However, where, for any Signatory, the ratio of the mobile earth station parts to the land parts exceeds 20:1, that Signatory shall, upon application to the Council, be attributed a utilization equivalent to twice the land part or an investment share of 0.1 per cent, whichever is higher. Structures operating in the marine environment, for which access to the INMARSAT space segment has been permitted by the Council, shall be considered as ships for the purpose of this paragraph.
ARTICLE XIV
Earth Station Approval
Article XIV, paragraph (2) is replaced by the following text:
(2) Any application for such approval shall be submitted to the Organization by the Signatory of the Party in whose territory the land earth station is or will be located, or by the Party or the Signatory of the Party under whose authority the mobile earth station or the earth station on a structure operating in the marine environment is licensed or, with respect to land earth stations and mobile earth stations located in a territory or on a ship or an aircraft or an earth station on a structure operating in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of a Party, by an authorized telecommunications entity.
ARTICLE 21 Inventions and Technical Information
Article 21, sub-paragraphs 2(b) and 7(b)(i) are replaced by the following text:
(b)
(2)
(7) (b)
The right to disclose and to have disclosed to Parties and Signatories and others within the jurisdiction of any Party such inventions and technical information, and to use and to authorize and to have authorized Parties and Signatories and such others to use such invention and technical information without payment in connexion with the INMARSAT space segment and any mobile earth station or land earth station operating in conjunction therewith.
(i)
Without payment in connexion with the INMARSAT space segment or any land earth station or mobile earth station operating in conjunction therewith;
ARTICLE 32 Signature and Ratification
Article 32, paragraph (3) is replaced by the following text:
(3) On becoming a Party to this Convention, or at any time thereafter, a State may declare, by written notification to the Depositary, to which Registers of ships, to which aircraft and mobile earth stations on land operating under its authority, and to which land earth stations under its jurisdiction, the Convention shall apply.