1-266 The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) is the most senior of the committees that carry out the organisation's technical work. Ship managers should take active steps to ensure that they are represented in these committees and sud-committees for there are many pressure groups that will introduce initatives that are not necessarily compatible with the safe and efficient operation on ships. One current example is the pressure to access more of the radio waveband spectrum for more "commercially viable" use. This had led to pressure to reduce the power output of marine radars and, consequetly, to reduce their effective range. Marine equipment manufacturers will not, in the long run, object to designing, selling and installing a whole new set of radars. It is the ship operators that need to negotiate a sensible compromise and, in order to do this, they need to allocate the necessary financial and manpower resources.