RES33 – 192 – MOD RESOLUTION 33 (REV.WRC-15) Bringing into use of space stations in the broadcasting-satellite service, prior to the entry into force of agreements and associated plans for the broadcasting-satellite service The World Radiocommunication Conference (Geneva, 2015), considering a) that while Resolution 507 (Rev.WRC-15) envisages plans for the broadcasting-satellite service (BSS), some administrations might nevertheless feel the need to bring stations in that service into use prior to such plans being established; b) that administrations should, as far as possible, avoid proliferation of space stations in the BSS before such plans have been established; c) that a space station in the BSS may cause harmful interference to terrestrial stations operating in the same frequency band, even if the latter are outside the service area of the space station; d) that the procedures specified in Articles 9 to 14 and Appendix 5 contain provisions for coordination between stations in the BSS and terrestrial stations, between space systems in that service and space systems of other administrations; e) that there are many existing and planned stations in the BSS not subject to agreements and associated plans that have submitted advance publication information (API) or a request for coordination under the existing Resolution 33 procedures and that some administrations are currently in coordination under these procedures, resolves 1 that, except in those cases where agreements and associated plans for the BSS have been established and have entered into force, for satellite networks for which the API has been received following 1 January 1999, only the procedures of Articles 9 to 14* shall be applied for the coordination and notification of stations in the BSS and coordination and notification of other services in respect of that service; 2 that, except in those cases where agreements and associated plans for the BSS have been established and have entered into force, for satellite networks for which the API has been received by the Radiocommunication Bureau prior to 1 January 1999, only the procedure in Sections A to C in this Resolution shall be applied; 3 that a future conference review the requirement for the procedures in this Resolution. _______________ * Or procedures contained in other provisions of these Regulations when they replace any of those in Articles 9 to 14 for the broadcasting-satellite service.