the system providing MCV services shall not be used closer than 2 nautical miles(1) from the baseline, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

only indoor vessel-BS antenna(s) shall be used between 2 and 12 nautical miles from the baseline;

limits to be set for mobile terminals when used on board vessel and for vessel-BS:

Parameter	Description
^a ACCMIN (RX_LEV_ACCESS_MIN); as described in GSM standard ETSI TS 144 018.
^b RXLEV (RXLEV-FULL-SERVING-CELL); as described in GSM standard ETSI TS 148 008.
^c Discontinuous transmission, or DTX; as described in GSM standard ETSI TS 148 008.
^d Timing advance; as described in GSM standard ETSI TS 144 018.
Transmit power/power density	For mobile terminals used on board vessels and controlled by the vessel-BS in the 900 MHz band, maximum radiated output power: 5 dBm
	For mobile terminals used on board vessels and controlled by the vessel-BS in the 1 800 MHz band, maximum radiated output power: 0 dBm
	For base stations on board vessels, the maximum power density measured in external areas of the vessel, with reference to a 0 dBi measurement antenna gain: – 80 dBm/200 kHz
Channel access and occupation rules	Techniques to mitigate interference that provide at least equivalent performance to the following mitigation factors based on GSM standards shall be used: between 2 and 3 nautical miles from the baseline, the receiver sensitivity and the disconnection threshold (ACCMIN^a and min RXLEV^b level) of the mobile terminal used on board vessel shall be equal to or higher than – 70 dBm/200 kHz and between 3 and 12 nautical miles from the baseline equal to or higher than – 75 dBm/200 kHz, discontinuous transmission^c shall be activated in the MCV system uplink direction, the timing advance^d value of the vessel-BS shall be set to the minimum.

ANNEX Conditions to be met by a system providing MCV services in the territorial seas of the Member States of the European Union, in order to avoid harmful interference to land-based mobile networks