Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003, as amended (No. 185) - Russian Federation (Ratification: 2010)

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Direct Request

2019
2012

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Article 5 of the Convention. Quality controls and evaluation. The Committee notes with interest the Government’s reports of 10 August and 8 November 2011 transmitting to the Office the independent evaluation of the system for issuing seafarers’ identity documents (SIDs) which has been in operation since 2010. The evaluation was conducted from February to June 2011 by eight independent experts of the “Russian Register” and included an analysis and assessment of the reliability and conformity of the system for the production of the new generation of seafarers’ travel documents with the mandatory requirements of Part A and non-mandatory criteria of Part B of Annex III of the Convention. The Federal Marine and River Transport Agency of the Ministry of Transport has been assigned responsibility for the administration of the system. According to the results of the independent evaluation, the system put in place for issuing SIDs was found to be in full compliance with the requirements of the Convention.

The Committee understands that the Office, assisted by experts, is in the process of examining the documentation provided by the Government, in accordance with the arrangements adopted by the ILO Governing Body for the establishment under Article 5(6) of the Convention, of a list of ratifying Members which fully meet the minimum requirements set out in Annex III of the Convention. The Committee also understands that the Office will in due course make the evaluation report available to all Members having ratified the Convention and that it will also transmit the necessary information, including its own assessment of the adequacy of the independent evaluation and its conclusions as to whether or not the Russian Federation fully meets the minimum requirements, to a tripartite Review Group for further consideration and any recommendation that it may make concerning the inclusion of the Russian Federation in the list to be approved by the Governing Body. Recalling that inclusion on this list provides international confirmation of the adequacy of the national procedures and practices for issuing SIDs, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on further developments concerning the implementation of the Convention both in law and in practice, including available statistical data and the text of any relevant laws, regulations or administrative instructions not previously communicated to the Office.