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The Committee notes the statistical data supplied with the Government’s report under Part V of the report form concerning the number of seafarers’ identity documents issued to Ukrainian citizens and to foreigners. It further notes that the Government’s report contains no reply to previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read essentially as follows:

Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Please indicate the manner in which cases of doubt as to whether any category of persons is considered as a seafarer are decided, and whether workers’ and employers’ organizations have been consulted.

Article 4, paragraphs 2 and 6. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate how shipowners’ and seafarers’ organizations had been consulted prior to deciding the contents of the identity document. The Committee requests the Government to send a hard copy specimen of the identity document with the next report.

Article 5. Please indicate the legal provisions guaranteeing the right of return to Ukraine for up to one year with an expired Ukrainian seafarers’ identity document issued to a foreign seafarer.