Recital (3) · Council Directive (EU) 2018/131

(3)Following international expert meetings, the ILO launched a process to amend the MLC in order to address concerns relating, on the one hand, to the abandonment of seafarers and financial security and, on the other, to claims related to death or long-term disability of seafarers. The Special Tripartite Committee established under the MLC adopted two amendments on those issues at its meeting from 7 to 11 April 2014. Parts of the rules subject to the amendments fell within the Union's competence and concerned matters on which the Union had adopted rules, in particular in social policy and transport. On 26 May 2014 the Council therefore adopted Decision 2014/346/EU^note, setting out the position to be adopted on behalf of the Union at the 103rd session of the International Labour Conference (ILC). The position of the Union was to support the approval of the amendments to the MLC Code (‘the 2014 amendments to the MLC’).

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means any claim which relates to death or long-term disability of seafarers due to an occupational injury, illness or hazard as set out in national law, the seafarers' employment agreement or collective agreement.2.The system of financial security, as provided for in Standard A4.2.1, paragraph 1(b), may be in the form of a social security scheme or insurance or fund or other similar arrangements.

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