Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) - Portugal (Ratification: 1967)

Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes that the sample of the Maritime Registration Book (Cédula de Inscição Marítima), reproduced in Attachment I to Legislative Decree No. 280/2001, dated 23 October 2001, contains a statement that this Book is a seafarers’ identity document issued according to the provisions of the ILO Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108), concerning the seafarers’ identity document on commercial ships, to which it applies. It asks the Government to continue to supply information on the practical application of the Convention in Portugal, including information concerning the number of seafarers’ identity documents which have been issued during the period under review, any difficulties encountered in the application of the Convention, etc.