Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Ukraine

Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926 (No. 23) (Ratification: 1970)
Certification of Ships' Cooks Convention, 1946 (No. 69) (Ratification: 1970)
Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 92) (Ratification: 1970)
Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) (Ratification: 1970)
Accommodation of Crews (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1970 (No. 133) (Ratification: 1993)
Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 147) (Ratification: 1994)

The Committee notes the Government’s reports on Conventions Nos. 23, 69, 92, 108, 133 and 147. In order to provide a comprehensive view of the issues to be addressed in relation to the application of these Conventions, the Committee considers it appropriate to examine these matters in a single comment, as follows.

The Committee recalls that, in the framework of the Standards Review Mechanism, the ILO Governing Body, as recommended by the Special Tripartite Committee on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006), classified Conventions Nos. 23, 69, 92, 108, 133 and 147 as “outdated”. At its 343rd Session (November 2021), the Governing Body placed an item on the agenda of the 118th Session (2030) of the International Labour Conference concerning the abrogation of Conventions Nos. 23, 69, 92 and 133; requested the Office to launch an initiative to promote the ratification on a priority basis of the MLC, 2006 among the countries still bound by outdated Conventions, as well as to promote the ratification of the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003, as amended (No. 185) among the countries still bound by Convention No. 108. In this regard, the Committee notes with interest the Government’s information that, in the first half of 2021, the Ministry of Infrastructure developed draft laws on the ratification of the MLC, 2006, and on the introduction of amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine related to the ratification of this Convention. The Committee also notes with interest the Government’s indication that the national procedures for the ratification of Convention No. 185 are well advanced and that, in preparation for the ratification, the Government has submitted to the Office a copy of the draft sample SID. The Committee invites the Government to provide a sample (and not a copy) of the SID in order to allow a proper evaluation of its conformity with the technical requirements of Convention No. 185. The Committee further requests the Government to provide information on any progress made towards the ratification of the MLC, 2006 and Convention No. 185.