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

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) - Latvia (Ratification: 1993)

Article 5 of the Convention. Readmission to a territory. The Committee had noted that the issue of readmission into a territory was dealt with in Regulation No. 279 of 27 May 2003, which, however, was repealed by Regulation No. 992 of 20 December 2005. The Committee notes that the latter Regulation does not address this issue and that the Government’s report provides no information in this respect. The Committee recalls that, according to Article 5 of the Convention, any seafarer who holds a valid seafarers’ identity document issued by the competent authority of a territory for which this Convention is in force shall be readmitted to that territory, and that readmission shall be possible during a period of at least one year after the date of expiry indicated in the said document. The Committee requests the Government to indicate how it is ensured that effect is given to this Article of the Convention.

The Committee further recalls that the Convention has been revised by the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185). It draws the Government’s attention to its general observation addressing the recent amendments to the annexes of Convention No. 185.