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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the information and the copy of a seafarer's passport transmitted by the Government in response to its previous direct request.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee notes that Recommendation No. 9, in the back pages of the seafarer's passport, provides that the passport shall be kept by the master or any other officer of the vessel during the period of engagement of the seafarer. The Government's report also states that the passport is given to the master during the voyage. The Committee recalls that, under the present Article of the Convention, the identity document should remain in the seafarer's possession at all times. The Committee hopes that the Government will indicate in its next report the measures taken in order to give effect to the Convention on this point.

Article 6. The Committee notes that the Government will transmit with its next report the regulations issued by the National Directorate of Inspection and the Directorate of Emigration and Frontiers (DEFA) with regard to the application of this Article.