Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Shipowners' Liability (Sick and Injured Seamen) Convention, 1936 (No. 55) - Egypt (Ratification: 1982)

Part V of the report form. Practical Application. As the Government has not provided for a number of years any concrete information concerning the application of the Convention in practice, the Committee requests the Government to provide up-to-date information including, for instance, the number of seafarers to whom the Convention applies; the number of sick, injured or deceased seafarers who have received assistance during the reporting period in accordance with the Convention, distinguishing, if possible, between persons left ashore in the territory in which the ship is registered and those left ashore elsewhere; the amounts paid by shipowners and the social security institution for sick and injured seafarers; information on settlement of individual disputes of seafarers based on the procedures set out in sections 70–72 of the Labour Law (Act No. 12 of 2003); specimen copies of any employment contracts containing provisions on material assistance in case of sickness, injury or death; and relevant extracts from activity reports of competent authorities, such as the Ministry of Manpower and Migration, the Maritime Transport Section of the Ministry of Transport and the Insurance Section of the Ministry of Finance.

Finally, the Committee recalls that the main provisions of the Convention are reflected in Regulation 4.2 and the corresponding Code of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). It considers, therefore, that compliance with Convention No. 55 will facilitate the implementation of the respective provisions of the MLC, 2006. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any developments regarding the process of ratification and effective implementation of the MLC, 2006.