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 (3 STAT.1 MULTILATE.RAL -TELECO)MMUlNICATIONS--OCT. 2, 1947 (Chapter XVI, art. 45 RR) (10341047) ARTICLE 46 Special Services Section I. Meteorology 1034 § 1. (1) Meteorological messages comprise: 1035 a) messages addressed to meteorological services officially entrusted with weather forecasts, more specifically for the protection of maritime and air navigation; 1036 b) messages from these meteorological services in- tended specially for: 1037 - ship stations; 1038 - protection of aircraft; 1039 - the public. 1040 (2) The information contained in these messages may be: 1041 a) observations taken at fixed times; 1042 b) warnings of dangerous phenomena; 1043 c) forecasts and warnings; 1044 d) statements of the general meteorological situa- tion. 1045 § 2. (1) The various national meteorological services mu- tually agree to prepare common transmission programmes so as to use the transmitters best situated to serve the regions concerned. 1046 (2) The meteorological observations contained in the classes mentioned in 1035, 1036, 1037 and 1038 are, in princi- ple, drawn up in an international meteorological code, whether they are transmitted by or intended for mobile stations. 1047 § 3. For observation messages intended for an official meteorological service, use shall be made of the facilities re- suiting from the allocation of exclusive frequencies to synoptic 1955

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