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

Certification of Able Seamen Convention, 1946 (No. 74) - Guinea - Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

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

Repetition

Article 2 of the Convention. Conditions for certification of able seamen. The Committee notes the Government’s statement that a gap analysis of the national maritime legislation has already been completed with the assistance of the Office and that the MLC, 2006, is in the Popular National Assembly. Recalling the Government’s indication in previous reports that while the outdated Decree No. 15.969 of 15 October 1964 dealt with the subject matter of the Convention, the revised General Labour Law would include a chapter of maritime labour, the Committee requests the Government to indicate any progress made in this regard and to transmit a copy of the new legal text once adopted.