Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2010, publiée 100ème session CIT (2011)

Articles 2–5 of the Convention. Recruitment agencies for seafarers. The Committee notes that the Convention continues to be implemented through Supreme Decree No. 018-73/MA of 18 December 1973 establishing the Seafarers’ Placement Office and Ministerial Resolution No. 1905-73/MA/SG of 21 December 1973 regulating the Seafarers’ Placement Office. It also notes that the prohibition against finding employment for seafarers as a commercial enterprise for pecuniary gain by any person, company or agency is also set out in section E-040103 of Supreme Decree No. 028-DE/MGP of 25 May 2001 on Regulations on Ports and Activities at Sea and on Inland Waterways.

The Committee takes this opportunity to recall that, at the proposal of the Working Party on Policy regarding the Revision of Standards, the ILO Governing Body considered that Convention No. 9 is an outdated instrument and invited the States parties to this Convention to consider ratifying the Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996 (No. 179) (GB.283/LILS/WP/PRS/1/2, paragraph 12). However, most of the provisions of Convention No. 179 have since been incorporated and further expanded in Regulation 1.4, Standard A1.4 and Guideline B1.4 of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), which revises Conventions Nos 9 and 179, as well as 66 other international maritime labour instruments. The Committee therefore encourages the Government to continue to ensure compliance with the provisions of Convention No. 9 in a manner that would facilitate the implementation of corresponding provisions of the MLC, 2006, once ratified and entered into force. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any further developments in the process of ratification of the MLC, 2006.

Article 10. Employment information. The Committee recalls that under this provision of the Convention, member States are expected to communicate to the Office all available information, statistical or otherwise, concerning seafarers’ unemployment and the work of employment agencies for seafarers. Noting that the Government has communicated such information for the last time in 1993, the Committee requests the Government to provide in its next report up-to-date information in this regard.