Decision on the 18th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General Fifth Supplementary Report: Progress on the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185)

Fifth Supplementary Report: Progress on the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185)

A proposed way forward

The Governing Body requested the Office to:

(a) follow up the ideas set out in document GB.309/18/5, with a view to defining concrete proposals or options for implementing Convention No. 185 in a cost-effective way having regard to the different situations of interested ILO Members;

(b) report to the Governing Body on the result, if possible at its 310th Session in March 2011; and

(c) convey to ISO the ILO’s appreciation for the assistance provided to it by ISO, and in particular for the ISO/IEC 24713-3 standard relating to the Biometrics-based verification and identification of seafarers.

(Document GB.309/18/5, paragraph 16.)