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Articles 2(1) and 5 of the Convention. Welfare facilities and services. The Committee notes that the Government reproduces the information it included in its previous report. Welfare facilities and services are provided by voluntary organizations in partnership with seafarers’ unions mainly in the form of access to telephones, fax machines, Internet, lounges, newspapers and magazines, etc. The Government adds that there have been no periodic reviews of these facilities. The Committee requests the Government to indicate measures taken or envisaged to ensure that the existing arrangements for welfare facilities and services are appropriate and adequate. The Committee recalls that useful guidance in this respect may be found in the Seafarers’ Welfare Recommendation, 1987 (No. 173), especially as regards the possibility of setting up welfare boards to keep under review the adequacy of existing welfare facilities (paragraph 9) and the need to establish not only meeting and recreation rooms but also sports facilities, educational facilities and facilities for religious observances and personal counselling (paragraph 12).
Article 3(2). Location of welfare facilities. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that welfare facilities and services are currently provided in the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Vitória and Paranaguá, and that discussions are under way to introduce similar facilities in the ports of Sepetiba and Macaé. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether shipowners’ and seafarers’ organizations have been duly consulted on the selection of these ports and also to provide additional information on the voluntary organizations involved and the nature of welfare facilities and services envisaged.
Part V of the report form. Practical application. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including, for instance, the nature, location and number of welfare facilities and services in Brazilian ports and on board Brazilian-flagged ships, any projects or programmes currently implemented with the assistance of the International Committee on Seafarers’ Welfare (ICSW) and the number of seafarers having access to welfare facilities and services.
Finally, the Committee recalls that most of the provisions of this Convention have been incorporated in Regulation 4.4, Standard A4.4 and Guideline B4.4 of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), and therefore ensuring compliance with Convention No. 163 would facilitate compliance with the corresponding requirements of the MLC, 2006. The Committee accordingly requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any progress made with respect to the process of ratification of the MLC, 2006.
Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to take necessary measures to have welfare services and facilities reviewed at regular intervals and to report on any progress made in this regard.
Article 6. The Committee asks the Government to take the necessary measures to cooperate with other Members with a view to ensuring the application of this Convention, and to ensure cooperation between the parties engaged and interested in promoting the welfare of seafarers at sea and in port, and to report on any progress made in this regard.
Article 1, paragraph 3. Please indicate as to what extent the provisions of the Convention are applied to commercial maritime fishing, and provide information on the consultations which have taken place in accordance with this paragraph.
Article 2, paragraph 1. Please indicate how the Government ensures that welfare facilities provided for seafarers in port by voluntary organizations are adequate.
Article 2, paragraph 2. Please describe the arrangements made (either by the Government itself or by voluntary organizations) for financing the seafarer’s welfare facilities and services.
Article 3, paragraph 2. Please provide information on the consultations which have taken place in accordance with this Article.
Part III of the report form. Clarification as to how coordination is organized between the maritime authority and the labour inspectorate to ensure enforcement of the provisions of the Convention.
Part V of the report form. Please give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in Brazil, and provide information on the nature, location and number of welfare services and facilities in ports and on board ships and the number of seafarers having access to these services and facilities.
The Committee notes the Government’s reports for the period up to June 2001. It requests the Government to make its next report in accordance with the report form approved by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, giving full information on each of the provisions of the Convention and on each of the questions set out in the report form.