Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2012, publiée 102ème session CIT (2013)

Convention (n° 126) sur le logement à bord des bateaux de pêche, 1966 - Fédération de Russie (Ratification: 1969)

Article 3 of the Convention. Laws and regulations implementing the provisions of Parts II, III and IV of the Convention. The Committee notes that no substantive progress has been made with respect to the specific points on which the Committee has been commenting since 2005. In its latest report, the Government reiterates that draft legislation is being prepared to replace the 1977 Regulations issuing sanitary rules for Soviet vessels and boats and that the new legislation will be in line with the provisions of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188).

The Committee recalls that it has been drawing the Government’s attention to two sets of provisions. Firstly, there are provisions that are currently not given effect by national laws and regulations, such as: the provisions with respect to penalties for non-compliance (Article 3(2)(d)); periodical inspection (Article 5); watertight and gastight bulkheads (Article 6(3)); prohibition of open fires (Article 8(3)); sleeping room capacity (Article 10(9)); sanitary facilities (Article 12(2)(c)); facilities for drying clothes (Article 12(7), (11)); sickbay (Article 13(1)); and alterations to existing vessels (Article 17(2)–(4)). Secondly, there are provisions on which the Committee has requested, but never received information, and therefore, their application in practice remains unclear, for instance: the provisions relating to emergency escapes from crew accommodation, adequate insulation of sleeping rooms and mess rooms, fire prevention/retarding measures, steam and exhaust pipes not through crew accommodation, wall surfaces in sleeping rooms painted in a light colour and kept easily clean (Article 6(2), (4), (7), (9)–(11), (13), (14)); heating in operation at all times when practicable (Article 8(2)); permanent blue light in sleeping rooms (Article 9(5)); sleeping rooms amidships or aft, separate room for each department, construction and size of berths, furniture of sleeping rooms (Article 10(1), (5), (13)–(26)); furniture and equipment of mess rooms (Article 11(7), (8)); and gas used for cooking (Article 16(6)).

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every possible effort to finalize in the very near future the draft “Requirements for the safety of floating craft and water transport vessels to ensure hygiene and disease control”, taking into account all the comments that the Committee has been formulating for a number of years.