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

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) - Morocco (Ratification: 2001)

Articles 4(2) and (3)(d) of the Convention. Compulsory particulars. Form and content of seafarers’ identity documents. The Committee previously noted that the maritime workbook provided by the Government does not contain a statement that the document is a seafarers’ identity document for the purpose of this Convention, as required in Article 4(2) of the Convention, or details concerning the bearer’s physical characteristics, as indicated in Article 4(3)(d). The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures adopted to include these elements in the maritime workbook and to send a specimen copy of this document.

Article 5 of the Convention. Readmission to a territory. The Committee notes that neither the maritime workbook nor the related legislation specify the period of validity of the workbook. Moreover, these texts do not establish a deadline for the seafarer’s readmission to the national territory after the workbook’s expiry. The Committee recalls that Article 5(2) provides that the period of readmission shall be at least one year after the date of expiry of the identity document. The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to specify the period of validity of the maritime workbook and to ensure the implementation of this provision 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.