Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

The Committee refers to its previous direct request and notes with interest from the Government's report that, under the provisions in force of Legislative Decree No. 104/89, section 25 of Decree No. 45969 which provided that the seaman's book was to be kept by the ship's master has been abolished, in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention.

The Committe hopes that the Government will now be able to have a statement included in the seaman's book to the effect that it constitutes a seafarer's identity document for the purposes of the Convention, as required by Article 4, paragraph 2, and that it will provide a specimen copy of the amended seaman's book.