1. European Commission Council regulation (EC) 1224/2009, the Control Regulation. (2009). Retrieved July 29, 2015, from
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1397742834654&uri=CELEX:32009R1224
2. International Maritime Organisation, International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea “SOLAS”. (1974). Chapter V “Safety of Navigation”, Regulation 19. Although the original SOLAS Convention is from 1974, AIS was only introduced by amendment in December 2000.
3. International Organization for Standardization. (2015). Country Codes - ISO 3166. Retrieved July 29, 2015, from
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes
4. International Telecommunication Union. (2010). Technical Characteristics for a Universal Shipborne Automatic Identification System using Time Division Multiple Access in the VHF Maritime Mobile Bad. ITU-R M.1371-4.
5. International Telecommunication Union. (2015). Table of maritime identification digits. Retrieved July 29, 2015, from
http://www.itu.int/online/mms/glad/cga_mids.sh?lang=en
. Updated 18 May 2015.