RES553 – 348 – ATTACHMENT TO RESOLUTION 553 (REV.WRC-15) Special procedure to be applied for an assignment for a BSS system in the frequency band 21.4-22 GHz in Regions 1 and 3 1 The special procedure described in this attachment can only be applied once (except as described in § 3 below) by an administration or an administration acting on behalf of a group of named administrations when none of those administrations have a network in the MIFR, notified under Article 11 or successfully examined under No. 9.34 and published under No. 9.38 for the frequency band 21.4-22 GHz. In case of countries complying with § 3 below, the special procedures described in this attachment can also be applied1 by an administration when this administration has networks in the MIFR, notified under Article 11 or successfully examined under No. 9.34 and published under No. 9.38 for the frequency band 21.4-22 GHz, but which, combined, do not include its entire territory in the service area. Each one of the administrations in a group will lose its right to apply this special procedures individually or as a member of another group. 2 In the case that an administration that has already made a submission under this special procedure, either individually or as a part of a group (except as described in § 3 below), at a later stage submits a new submission, this new submission cannot benefit from this special procedure. 3 In order to meet the concerns of some countries with a large territory or dispersed territories that cannot be covered from one orbital location, under this procedure the requirement of such countries having large territory would be met by allowing them to apply this special procedure for submissions to cover their territories from an absolute minimum number of orbital locations2 that enable them to cover the entire territory in question. 4 Administrations seeking to apply this special procedure shall submit their request to the Bureau, with the following information: a) the geographical coordinates of not more than 20 points for determining the minimal ellipse3 to cover its/their national territory4; b) the height above sea level of each of its points; c) any special requirement which is to be taken into account, to the extent practicable. _______________ 1 The number of submissions shall not exceed the number of orbital locations for national assignments in the Appendix 30 Plan, reduced by the number of orbit locations of that administration for networks in the MIFR, submissions notified under Article 11 and submissions successfully examined under No. 9.34 and published under No. 9.38. 2 The number of orbital locations shall not exceed the number of orbital locations for national assignments in the Appendix 30 Plan. 3 In some cases, use of composite beams may be necessary to provide required coverage while reducing undesired coverage of adjacent geographical areas. 4 Countries requiring more than one orbital location to cover their national territory (see § 3 above) shall submit points for different orbital locations such that the polygons drawn between the points do not overlap with those from other orbital locations of the same administration.