An EMTU, MCSP, or bundle must comply with the following requirements, in addition to providing position information as required by the applicable VMS regulations and requirements in effect for each fishery or region for which the type-approval applies:
(a) An EMTU must be able to transmit all automatically-generated position reports, for vessels managed individually or grouped by fleet, that meet the latency requirement under Sec. 600.1504.
(b) When an EMTU is powered up, it must automatically re-establish its position reporting function without manual intervention.
(c) Position reports must contain all of the following:
(1) Unique identification of an EMTU within the communications class.
(2) Date (year/month/day with century in the year) and time stamp (GMT) of the position fix.
(3) Position fixed latitude and longitude, including the hemisphere of each, which comply with the following requirements:
(i) The position fix precision must be to the decimal minute hundredths.
(ii) Accuracy of the reported position must be within 100 meters.
(d) An EMTU must have the ability to:
(1) Store 1000 position fixes in local, non-volatile memory.
(2) Allow for defining variable reporting intervals between 5 minutes and 24 hours.
(3) Allow for changes in reporting intervals remotely and only by authorized users.
(e) An EMTU must generate specially identified position reports upon:
(1) Antenna disconnection.
(2) Loss of positioning reference signals.
(3) Loss of the mobile communications signals.
(4) Security events, power-up, power down, and other status data.
(5) The vessel crossing a pre-defined geographic boundary.
(6) A request for EMTU status information such as configuration of programming and reporting intervals.