432/1991.



The COMMUNICATION FROM the



the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs



The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that the 8 March. October 1987

was on 74. meeting of the General Conference of the International Labour Organization

adopted the Convention for the social welfare of seafarers at sea and in ports (No.

163). Ratification of the Convention was the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

written on 11 July. January 1990, General Director of the International Office

work. According to article 8, paragraph 3 of the Convention entered for the Czech and

Slovak Federal Republic enters into force on 11 March 2006. January 1991.



Czech translation of the Convention shall be published at the same time.



Convention No. 163



Convention on social welfare of seafarers at sea and in ports



The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, which was convened

the Administrative Council of the International Labour Office in Geneva, and there met the day

September 24, 1987, at its seventy-fourth session;



Recalling the provisions of the recommendations on the conditions of seafarers in ports,

in 1936, and a recommendation on the social conditions of seafarers, 1970;



rozhodnuvši accept some proposals relating to social care

seafarers at sea and in ports, which are the second point of the rules

agenda of the meeting;



stanovivši, that these proposals will take the form of an International Convention, it accepts

on 8 June 1998. October 1987 this Convention, which will be referred to as the Convention on the

social care for mariners, 1987.



Article 1



1. for the purposes of this Convention:



and) the term "seafarer" means any person who is in any function

employed on a seagoing ship, whether in the public or private ownership,

with the exception of warships;



(b)) the terms "social facilities and services" means the equipment and services

social, cultural, recreational and information.



2. Each Member State shall, after consultation with the representative organisations

shipowners and seafarers, shall lay down in national legislation, which

ships registered in its territory shall be deemed for the purposes of naval ship

the provisions of this Convention on the social facilities and services on ships.



3. in so far as the competent authority, after consultation with representative

the organizations of the shipowners fishing boats and fishermen that it considers

practicable, will use the provisions of this Convention and on the commercial maritime

fishing.



Article 2



1. each Member State, for which the provisions of this Convention, undertakes to

ensure that both in ports and on ships for seafarers to

adequate social facilities and services.



2. each Member State shall ensure that the necessary measures will be taken for

the financing of the social facilities and services provided in accordance with the provisions of the

of this Convention.



Article 3



1. each Member State shall undertake to ensure that the welfare facilities and

services will be available in appropriate ports of the country for all

seafarers regardless of their nationality, race, colour,

sex, religion, political opinions or social origin and irrespective of

to the State where the ship is registered, on which they are employed.



2. each Member State shall determine, after consultation with representative

the organizations of shipowners and seafarers, which ports are suitable for the purposes of

This article.



Article 4



Each Member State shall undertake to ensure that the welfare facilities and services

on every ship, whether in the public or private ownership, which is

registered on its territory, it will be accessible to all seafarers on the ship.



Article 5



Social facilities and services should be frequently checked in order to

ensure that they match the changing needs of seafarers, taking into account the

technical, operational and other developments in the shipping.



Article 6



Each Member State shall undertake to:



and cooperate with the other Member) States, in order to ensure

the implementation of this Convention;



(b)) to ensure cooperation between the parties that are involved and interested in

the development of social protection for seafarers at sea and in ports.



Article 7



The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-

The International Labour Office and written by him.



Article 8



1. this Convention undertakes to only the Member States of the international organization

labour, whose ratification has been registered by the Director General.



2. Shall take effect twelve months after the date the Director writes

the ratification of the two Member States.



3. For each Member State, this Convention shall take effect twelve

months from the date on which its ratification has been registered.



Article 9



1. each Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it

After the expiration of ten years from the date on which this Convention first acquired

the effectiveness of written communication, the Director General of the International Office

work that is writes. Denunciation shall take effect one year after the date on which the

It was registered.



2. each Member State that has ratified this Convention and which does not apply

rights to terminate her under this article during the year following

the expiry of the period of ten years, as indicated in the previous paragraph, the

bound by the Convention for the next ten-year period and then it will be able to terminate

on the expiry of the 10-year period, under the conditions laid down in this

article.



Article 10



1. the Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Member

States, the International Labour Organisation the ratification of, and writing all the testimony,

members of the Organization shall communicate to him.



2. When the Member States of the Organization to communicate to write the second

the ratification was announced to him, General Manager notifies Member

States of the Organization to the date when this Convention enters into force.



Article 11



Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify the

the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with article 102 the Charter of the United

Nations full particulars of all ratifications and denunciations that enrolled

under the provisions of the preceding articles.



Article 12



The Administrative Council of the International Labour Office, at any time it deems

necessary, shall submit to the General Conference a report on the implementation of this Convention, and

examine whether it is advisable to put on the agenda of the General Conference

the question of its full or partial revision.



Article 13



1. the General Conference adopt a new Convention revising all or

partly this Convention and does not appoint a new Convention:



and the new Convention revising) the ratification by a Member State will result ipso jure

immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of article 9, and with it the

subject to the new revising Convention enters into force;



(b)), from the time when the new revising Convention enters into force, this Convention

Member States shall cease to be open to ratification.



2. This Convention shall remain in force in its form and content for those

Member States which have ratified it, and that have not ratified the revising

the Convention.



Article 14



The English and French texts of this Convention are equally authentic.