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Based on the principle that the issue before us is only that of identifying seafarers when they go ashore, we agree with the general thrust, which is that seafarers’ identification documents should be considered sufficient and that no entry visas should be needed, for example when ships are docking or making ports of call and in the previously mentioned cases of transit, transfer or repatriation.
Furthermore, according to Article 9 of Annex I of Legal Decree No 280/2001 of 23 October, the Portuguese marine registration certificate ‘can constitute a marine identification document for the purposes of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No 108’. All that remains, therefore, is the ‘visas’ issue, and in our view they should not be required.
Consequently we broadly agree with the proposals contained in the report.
There is one issue, however, that has not been analysed, which is the Commission’s proposal that the Council authorise Member States to ratify an ILO Convention. This is a further example of undermining national sovereignty, and we are opposed to the move. It should be pointed out that France has already ratified the Convention concerned, effectively exercising its sovereignty as an independent country, without, of course, asking the EU’s permission to do so."@en1
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