Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976

Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 is an International Labour Organization Convention.

Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976
C147
ILO Convention
Date of adoptionOctober 29, 1976
Date in forceNovember 28, 1981
ClassificationSeafarers
SubjectSeafarers
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It was established in 1976, with the preamble stating:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to substandard vessels, particularly those registered under flags of convenience, ...

Ratifications

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Protocol of 1996 to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976

Having determined that these proposals should take the form of a Protocol to the principal Convention;

adopts, this twenty-second day of October one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, the following Protocol, which may be cited as the Protocol of 1996 to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976.

As of 2023, the convention had been ratified by 56 states. Of these ratifying states, 45 have subsequently denounced the convention.

Country Date
  Azerbaijan 19 May 1992
  Costa Rica 24 Jun 1981
  Dominica 06 Jan 2004
  Egypt 17 Mar 1983
  Iraq 15 Feb 1985
  Israel 06 Dec 1996
  Kyrgyzstan 31 Mar 1992
  Peru 06 Jul 2004
  Tajikistan 26 Nov 1993
  Trinidad and Tobago 03 Jun 1999
  Ukraine 17 Mar 1994
  United States of America 15 Jun 1988
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