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In the comments it has been making for many years, the Committee has drawn the Government's attention to the need to adopt specific legislation for seafarers to give effect, in particular, to this Convention. For this purpose, a Bill on the work of seafarers was drafted in 1983 with the collaboration of an ILO expert. In its report for the period 1988-89, the Government stated that the above Bill was to be re-examined by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security owing to a recent change of Government. In its last report, the Government does not mention the Bill in question and refers to legislation that the Committee already examined years ago and found inappropriate for the specific case of seafarers. In information provided more recently, the Government states that section 53 of the new Political Constitution of Colombia, which has been in force since July 1991, provides that "duly ratified international conventions are part of domestic legislation". The Committee takes note of this information but wishes to recall that, notwithstanding, certain provisions of Convention No. 22 are not self-executing but require the authorities to take specific legislative measures for their application. The provisions in question are Article 3, Article 4, paragraph 1, Articles 5 and 8, Article 9, paragraphs 2 and 3 and Articles 11, 12 and 15. The Committee therefore trusts that the Government will spare no efforts to ensure that effect is given to the above-mentioned provisions of the Convention in the near future, and will provide information in this regard in its next report.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1993.]