Bahamas Maritime Authority

Ratifying Countries must adopt national laws or take measures to ensure the Regulations’ principles and rights are implemented in the Standards or in a subs...

Guidelines, adopted in 2008, for flag State inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and port State control officers carrying out inspections ...

The ILO Governing Body has identified eight fundamental international labour Conventions, covering subjects considered as fundamental principles and rights ...

The ILO Constitution and many conventions recognise national circumstances providing flexibility in application, to gradually improve protection, by conside...

The MLC entered into force on 20 August 2013 for the first 30 registered ratifications on 20 August 2012 of ILO Members exceeding 33 per cent of the world g...

Various indicators suggest near universal ratification will ultimately be achieved: • The vote to adopt the Convention by a record vote of 314 in favour...

A list of countries that have ratified, and the date of entry into force for each country, and other national information (click on the country name) is ava...

The MLC, 2006, entered into force on 20 August 2013, 12 months after the date of receipt of  registered ratifications by at least 30 ILO Members with a tota...

Existing ILO maritime labour Conventions will gradually be eliminated once countries ratify the MLC.  A transitional period will operate for some Convention...

There are two amendment procedures, Article XIV for the whole MLC, and Article XV  to amend the Code.  The Article XIV express ratification procedure mirror...