Additionally:

IARU Says "Remove Code", Excerpted from ARRL Letter

"The focus was on the future when the International Amateur Radio Union
Administrative Council met September 6-7 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In the aftermath of WRC-03, the council urged IARU member-societies to call
to
the attention of their administrations "the desirability of adopting
specific
changes in their domestic regulations for the amateur and amateur-satellite
services, so that they will be consistent with the revised Article 25 of the
international Radio Regulations." In that vein, the IARU governing body
called
for the removal of Morse code as an examination requirement to operate on
HF.
The council reiterated its stance first taken in 2001 that Morse code
proficiency "as a qualifying criterion for an HF amateur license is no
longer
relevant to the healthy future of amateur Radio."

"IARU policy is to support the removal of Morse code testing as a
requirement
for an amateur license to operate on frequencies below 30 MHz," the IARU
Administrative Council resolved. At the same time, the council's resolution
recognized Morse code as "an effective and efficient mode of communication
used
by many thousands of radio amateurs." It also took into account
ITU-Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) Recommendation M.1544, which sets down
the
minimum qualifications of radio amateurs.

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