Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention, 1946 (No. 73) - Guinea - Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes with concern that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Article 5 of the Convention. Period of validity of the medical certificate. The Committee takes note of the Government’s indication that a comparative analysis of the MLC, 2006, and national legislation was carried out with the Office’s assistance, and that the MLC, 2006, is before the Popular National Assembly for consideration.

The Committee recalls that, in previous comments, it had asked the Government whether the period of validity of the medical certificate was two years (as mentioned in section 187(6) of Decree No. 45.969) or three months (as indicated by the Government in its previous report). It therefore requests the Government to indicate which of these periods of validity for medical certificates is applicable.