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? The Mobile Facilities volume (volume III) is intended to be carried aboard rescue units, aircraft, and vessels to help with performance of a search, rescue, or on-scene co-ordinator function and with aspects of SAR that pertain to their own emergencies. This Manual is published jointly by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization. Since it was published in 1998, this volume has been amended by the 2001 amendments (adopted by ICAO and by the IMO Maritime Safety Committee at its seventy-fourth session in June 2001, and entered into force on 1 July 2002), by the 2002 amendments (adopted by ICAO and by the seventy-fifth session of the IMO Committee in May 2002, and entered into force on 1 July 20030 by the 2003 amendments (adopted by ICAO and by the seventy-seventh session of the IMO Committee in June 2003, and entered into force on 1 July 2004), by the 2004 amendments (adopted by ICAO and by the seventy-eighth session of the IMO Committee in May 2004, and entered into force on 1 July 2005) and by the 2005 amendments (adopted by ICAO and by the eightieth session of the IMO Committee, and apply as from 1 June 2006). It has also been amended to reflect the changes to chapter V of SOLAS 1974 that were adopted in December 2000 (entered into force on 1 July 2002) and in May 2004 (entry into force on 1 July 2006). This new edition includes the 2006 amendments (adopted by ICAO and the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) at its eighty-first session in May 2006 that enter into force on 1 June 2007. The amendments have also been endorsed by the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue (COMSAR) at its tenth session in March 2006.