Organization and Management (Volume I) discusses the global SAR system concept, establishment and improvement of national and regional SAR systems, and co-operation with neighboring States to provide effective and economical SAR services.
This Manual is published jointly by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization. It has been updated from the first and second editions by including the amendments that were adopted by the seventy-fourth session of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee in June 2001 (which entered into force on 1 July 2002), by the seventy-fifth session in May 2002 (which entered into force on 1 July 2003), by the seventy-seventh session in June 2003 (which apply as from 1 July 2004) and by the seventy-eighth session in May 2004 (which apply as from 1 July 2005) and by the eightieth session in May 2005 (which apply from 1 June 2006) and by the eighty- first session in May 2006 (which apply as from 1 June 2007).