RES647 – 370 – noting further a) that flexibility must be afforded to disaster relief agencies and organizations to use current and future radiocommunications, so as to facilitate their humanitarian operations; b) that it is in the interest of administrations and disaster relief agencies and organizations to have access to updated information on national spectrum planning for emergency and disaster relief, taking into account that the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) has established and maintains a database4 containing administration contact information, available frequencies/frequency bands for use by terrestrial and space services, and any additional information or instructions relevant to emergency situations within these administrations,resolves 1 that ITU-R continue through its study groups to study those aspects of radiocommunication/ICTs that are relevant to early warning, disaster prediction, detection, mitigation and relief operations taking into account Resolution ITU-R 55; 2 to encourage administrations to communicate to BR the relevant up-to-date administration contact information and, where available, the frequencies or frequency bands for use in emergency and disaster relief operations; 3 to reiterate to administrations the importance of having up-to-date information referred to in resolves 2 above available for use in the very early stages of humanitarian assistance intervention for disaster relief, instructs the Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau 1 to support administrations in their work towards the implementation of both Resolutions 36 (Rev. Guadalajara, 2010) and 136 (Rev. Busan, 2014), as well as the Tampere Convention; 2 to coordinate activities between this Resolution and Resolution 646 (Rev.WRC-15) in order to minimize possible overlap; 3 to continue to assist Member States with their emergency communication preparedness activities by maintaining the database5 of information from administrations for use in emergency situations, which includes contact information and optionally includes available frequencies; 4 to facilitate online access to the database by administrations, national regulatory authorities, disaster relief agencies and organizations, in particular the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, in accordance with the operating procedures developed for disaster situations; _______________ 4 The database may be accessed at http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/res647. 5 The database may be accessed at http://www.itu.int/ITU R/go/res647.