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Who will give effect to the ILO's Maritime Labour Convention, 2006?
Author(s) -
PINIELLA Francisco,
SILOS José María,
BERNAL Francisca
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2013.00169.x
Subject(s) - flags register , convention , port (circuit theory) , control (management) , pillar , state (computer science) , maritime safety , flag (linear algebra) , international trade , political science , business , engineering , law , economics , management , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , mechanical engineering , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics , algebra over a field , operating system
. The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, which takes effect on 20 August 2013, consolidates dozens of ILO standards adopted since the 1920s. It has been described as the “fourth pillar” of the international maritime regulatory regime, alongside three major IMO Conventions on safety at sea and marine pollution control. The challenge, the authors argue, will be to enforce it within the existing inspection frameworks of flag State implementation and “port State control”. Technically, the responsibility rests on the former, but the proliferation of flags of convenience suggests that the latter will have a crucial part to play too, as will, in either case, inspector training.