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Maritime and Coastguard Agency: UN Agencies

Answer

Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) officials have routinely attended all meetings at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) (the two United Nations Agencies that consider maritime matters) since May 2010 where seafarer (a) training, (b) safety and (c) welfare standards have been on the agenda.

The IMO has a regular programme of meetings that discuss these matters, averaging around 15 per year. In addition, several working groups will also have these matters on their agenda.

The details of the key topics of discussion can be found on the IMO’s website. The next scheduled committee meeting of the IMO that is predominantly focused on seafarer (a) training, (b) safety and (c) welfare standards is on 16^th May 2018.

At the ILO, MCA officials have attended the following official meetings since May 2010:

	Meeting	Date
a) Training	Meeting of Experts to Adopt Guidelines on the Training of Ships’ Cooks	23 – 27 September 2013
b) Safety	Meeting of Experts on Maritime Occupational Safety and Health	13 – 17 October 2014
c) Welfare standards	1st Preparatory Special Tripartite Committee on the Maritime Labour Convention	20 – 22 September 2010
	Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Adopt Port State Control Guidelines for Implementation of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)	15 – 19 February 2010
	Joint ILO/IMO Working Group on Medical Fitness Examinations of Seafarers and Ships’ Medicine Chest	26 – 20 September 2011
	2nd Preparatory Special Tripartite Committee on the Maritime Labour Convention	12 – 14 December 2011
	Global Dialogue Forum for the Promotion of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No.188)	15 – 17 May 2013
	1st Special Tripartite Committee on the Maritime Labour Convention	7 – 11 April 2014
	Meeting of Experts to Adopt Flag State Guidelines for the Implementation of the Work in Fishing Convention	21 – 25 September 2015
	2nd Special Tripartite Committee on the Maritime Labour Convention	8 – 10 April 2016
	International Conference on Labour Exploitation in the Fishing Sector in the Atlantic Region	25 – 26 November 2016
	Working Group of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention	3 – 5 April 2017
	Tripartite Meeting on issues relating to Migrant Fishers	18 – 22 September 2017

The next scheduled committee meeting of the ILO to discuss seafarer welfare is 23^rd April 2018. There are no further ILO meetings scheduled on seafarer training and safety.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

120009

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Conditions of employment Training Shipping Maritime and Coastguard Agency UN agencies

Contains statistics

Yes

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