The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014
These Regulations implement the following provisions relating to seafarers' working conditions and entitlements:those parts of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (Cm 7049) (“the MLC”) referred to below and their related mandatory Standards;the corresponding parts of the Agreement set out in the Annex to Council Directive 2009/13/EC (“the 2009 Directive”) of 16 February 2009 implementing the Agreement concluded by the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (O.J. L124, 20.5.2009, p. 30); andclauses 6 and 11 of the Agreement set out in the Annex to Council Directive 1999/63/EC (“the 1999 Directive”) concerning the Agreement on the organisation of working time of seafarers concluded by the European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA) and the Federation of Transport Workers' Unions in the European Union (FST) (O.J. L167, 2.7.1999, p. 33), as amended by Article 2(3) of the 2009 Directive.