Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

Placing of Seamen Convention, 1920 (No. 9) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1933)

1. In response to comments the Committee has been making for many years, the Government states in its report for the period ending in June 2002 that section 2 of Decree No. 600 of 1977 establishes the bipartite advisory committee for seafarers referred to in Article 5 of the Convention. The Government has also been stating for many years, however, that  the committees provided for in that Article of the Convention "are not currently in operation". Consequently, the Committee again asks the Government to provide all the practical information required by the report form on the Convention pertaining to Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention, including available statistical or other information pertaining to unemployment among seafarers and the work of its seafarers’ employment agencies (Article 10, paragraph 1, of the Convention).

2. In reply to the Committee’s direct request of 1998, the Government observes that Uruguay has not ratified Convention No. 179. The Committee points out in this connection that the Governing Body invited States parties to Convention No. 9 to consider ratifying the Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996 (No. 179), which would mean immediately denouncing Convention No. 9 (see paragraphs 47-51 of document GB.273/LILS/4(Rev.1), November 1998). The Committee would be grateful if, in its next report, the Government would provide additional information on any consultations held for this purpose.