ITU World Administrative Radio Conference Geneva 1979

Overview
The World Administrative Radio Conference of 1979 (WARC-79) was convened by the ITU in an effort to reach global agreement on the revised international arrangements necessary for efficient and interference-free use of the radiofrequency spectrum.

The Final Acts of the conference will constitute the "radio regulations, Geneva, 1979" and enter into force on January 1, 1982 for those countries that have formally adopted the Final Acts. The 1959 Radio Regulations, as partially revised by subsequent specialized administrative radio conferences, will be superseded.

WARC-79 was of special importance because of the broad scope of its agenda, which included most of the major arrangements relating to radio, and because it was the first general administrative radio conference since 1959 and therefore included many developing countries that had won their independence in the intervening two decades.