Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 82ème session CIT (1995)

The Committee notes with interest the adoption of the regulations concerning seafarers' identity documents.

Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Please indicate the manner in which cases of doubt as to whether any category of persons are to be considered as seafarers are decided and whether shipowners' and seafarers' organizations have been consulted.

Article 4. Please provide a specimen of the seafarers' identity document.

Article 4, paragraph 2. Please indicate whether space for the place of issuance of the document is provided for.

Article 4, paragraph 6. Please indicate whether shipowners' and seafarers' organizations have been consulted before the contents of the document were decided upon.

Article 5, paragraph 2. Please indicate how effect is given to the requirement of this Article that a seafarer be readmitted during a period of at least one year after any date of expiry indicated in the document.

Article 6, paragraph 2(b). Please indicate how effect is given to the requirements of this Article that permission be given to a holder of a valid seafarer's identity document containing space for appropriate entries, to enter the country for the purpose of repatriation and other purpose approved by the authorities.