CONVENTION No.68 Convention concerning Food and Catering for Crewson Board Ship
CONVENTION No.68 Convention concerning Food and Catering for Crewson Board Ship
[Date of coming into force: 24 March 1957.]
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The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Seattle by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-eighth Session
on 6 June 1946, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
food and catering for crews on board ship, which is the fourth item on the
agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention, adopts this twenty-seventh day of June of the
year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six the following Convention,
which may be cited as the Food and Catering (Ships' Crews) Convention,
1946:
Article 1
1. Every Member of the International Labour Organization for which
this Convention is in force is responsible for the promotion of a proper
standard of food supply and catering service for the crews of its
sea-going vessels, whether publicly or privately owned, which are engaged
in the transport of cargo or passengers for the purpose of trade and
registered in a territory for which this Convention is in force.
2. National laws or regulations or, in the absence of such laws or
regulations, collective agreements between employers and workers, shall
determine the vessels or classes of vessels which are to be regarded as
sea-going vessels for the purpose of this Convention.
Article 2
The following functions shall be discharged by the competent
authority, except in so far as these functions are adequately discharged
in virtue of collective agreements:
(a) the framing and enforcement of regulations concerning food and
water supplies, catering, and the construction, location, ventilation,
heating, lighting, water system and equipment of galleys and other
catering department spaces on board ship, including store rooms and
refrigerated chambers;
(b) the inspection of food and water supplies and of the
accommodation, arrangements and equipment on board ship for the storage,
handling and preparation of food;
(c) the certification of such members of the catering department
staff as are required to possess prescribed qualifications;
(c) research into, and educational and propaganda work concerning,
methods of ensuring proper food supply and catering service.
Article 3
1. The competent authority shall work in close co-operation with the
organizations of shipowners and seafarers and with national or local
authorities concerned with questions of food and health, and may where
necessary utilise the services of such authorities.
2. The activities of the various authorities shall be duly
co-ordinated so as to avoid overlapping or uncertainty of jurisdiction.
Article 4
The competent authority shall have a permanent staff of qualified
persons, including inspectors.
Article 5
1. Each Member shall maintain in force laws or regulations concerning
food supply and catering arrangements designed to secure the health and
well-being of the crews of the vessels mentioned in Article 1.
2. These laws or regulations shall require-
(a) the provision of food and water supplies which, having regard
to the size of the crew and the duration and nature of the voyage, are
suitable in respect of quantity, nutritive value, quality and variety;
(b) the arrangement and equipment of the catering department in
every vessel in such a manner as to permit of the service of proper meals
to the members of the crew.
Article 6
National laws or regulations shall provide for a system of inspection
by the competent authority of-
(a) supplies of food and water;
(b) all spaces and equipment used for the storage and handling of
food and water;
(c) galley and other equipment for the preparation and service of
meals; and
(d) the qualification of such members of the catering department
of the crew as are required by such laws or regulations to possess
prescribed qualifications.
Article 7
1. National laws or regulations or, in the absence of such laws or
regulations, collective agreements between employers and workers shall
provide for inspection at sea at prescribed intervals by the master, or an
officer specially deputed for the purpose by him, together with a
responsible member of the catering department of-
(a) supplies of food and water;
(b) all spaces and equipment used for the storage and handling of
food and water, and galley and other equipment for the preparation and
service of meals.
2. The results of each such inspection shall be recorded.
Article 8
A special inspection shall be made by the representatives of the
competent authority of the territory of registration on written complaint
made by a number or proportion of the crew prescribed by national laws or
regulations or on behalf of a recognised organization of shipowners or
seafarers. In order to avoid delay in sailing, such complaints should be
submitted as soon as possible and at least twenty-four hours before the
scheduled time of departure from port.
Article 9
1. Inspectors shall have authority to make recommendations to the
owner of a ship, or to the master or other person responsible, with a view
to the improvement of the standard of catering.
2. National laws or regulations shall prescribe penalties for-
(a) failure by an owner, master, member of the crew, or other
person responsible to comply with the requirements of the national laws or
regulations in force; and
(b) any attempt to obstruct an inspector in the discharge of his
duties.
3. Inspectors shall submit regularly to the competent authority
reports framed on uniform lines dealing with their work and its results.
Article 10
1. The competent authority shall prepare an annual report.
2. The annual report shall be issued as soon as practicable after the
end of the year to which it relates and shall be made readily available to
all bodies and persons concerned.
3. Copies of the annual report shall be transmitted to the
International Labour Office.
Article 11
1. Courses of training for employment in the catering department of
seagoing ships shall be organized either in approved schools or by means
of other arrangements acceptable to both shipowners' and seafarers'
organizations.
2. Facilities shall be provided for refresher courses to enable
persons already trained to bring their knowledge and skill up to date.
Article 12
1. The competent authority shall collect up-to-date information on
nutrition and on methods of purchasing, storing, preserving, cooking and
serving food, with special reference to the requirements of catering on
board ship.
2. This information shall be made available, free of charge or at
reasonable cost, to manufacturers of and traders in ships' food supplies
and equipment, ships' masters, stewards and cooks, and shipowners and
seafarers and their organizations generally; appropriate forms of
publicity, such as manuals, brochures, posters, charts or advertisements
in trade journals, shall be used for this purpose.
3. The competent authority shall issue recommendations to avoid
wastage of food, facilitate the maintenance of a proper standard of
cleanliness, and ensure the maximum practicable convenience in working.
Article 13
Any of the functions of the competent authority in respect of the
certification of catering department staff and the collection and
distribution of information may be discharged by delegating the work, or
part of it, to a central organization or authority exercising similar
functions in respect of seafarers generally.
Article 14
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to
the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 15
1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the
International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered
with the Director-General.
2. It shall come into force six months after the date on which there
have been registered ratifications by nine of the following countries:
United States of America, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Yugoslavia, including at
least five countries each of which has at least one million gross register
tons of shipping. This provision is included for the purpose of
facilitating and encouraging early ratification of the Convention by
Member States.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member
six months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
Article 16
1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after
the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention comes
into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the
International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not
take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not,
within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years
mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation
provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten
years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of
each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
Article 17
1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
notify all the Members of the International Labour Organization of the
registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by
the Members of the Organization.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration
of the last of the ratifications required to bring the Convention into
force, the Director-General shall draw the attention of Members of the
Organization to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 18
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for
registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United
Nations full particulars of all ratifications and acts of denunciation
registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
Articles.
Article 19
At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a
report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the
desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of
its revision in whole or in part.
Article 20
1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this
Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise
provides,
(a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention shall
ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention,
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 16 above, if and when the new
revising Convention shall have come into force;
(b) as from the date when the new revising Convention comes into
force, this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the
Members.
2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual
form and content for those Members which have ratified it but have not
ratified the revising Convention.
Article 21
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are
equally authoritative.
ates and shall be made readily available to
all bodies and persons concerned.
3. Copies of the annual report shall be transmitted to the
International Labour Office.
Article 11
1. Courses of training for employment in the catering department of
seagoing ships shall be organized either in approved schools or by means
of other arrangements acceptable to both shipowners' and seafarers'
organizations.
2. Facilities shall be provided for refresher courses to enable
persons already trained to bring their knowledge and skill up to date.
Article 12
1. The competent authority shall collect up-to-date information on
nutrition and on methods of purchasing, storing, preserving, cooking and
serving food, with special reference to the requirements of catering on
board ship.
2. This information shall be made available, free of charge or at
reasonable cost, to manufacturers of and traders in ships' food supplies
and equipment, ships' masters, stewards and cooks, and shipowners and
seafarers and their organizations generally; appropriate forms of
publicity, such as manuals, brochures, posters, charts or advertisements
in trade journals, shall be used for this purpose.
3. The competent authority shall issue recommendations to avoid
wastage of food, facilitate the maintenance of a proper standard of
cleanliness, and ensure the maximum practicable convenience in working.
Article 13
Any of the functions of the competent authority in respect of the
certification of catering department staff and the collection and
distribution of information may be discharged by delegating the work, or
part of it, to a central organization or authority exercising similar
functions in respect of seafarers generally.
Article 14
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to
the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 15
1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the
International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered
with the Director-General.
2. It shall come into force six months after the date on which there
have been registered ratifications by nine of the following countries:
United States of America, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Yugoslavia, including at
least five countries each of which has at least one million gross register
tons of shipping. This provision is included for the purpose of
facilitating and encouraging early ratification of the Convention by
Member States.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member
six months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
Article 16
1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after
the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention comes
into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the
International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not
take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not,
within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years
mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation
provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten
years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of
each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
Article 17
1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
notify all the Members of the International Labour Organization of the
registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by
the Members of the Organization.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration
of the last of the ratifications required to bring the Convention into
force, the Director-General shall draw the attention of Members of the
Organization to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 18
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for
registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United
Nations full particulars of all ratifications and acts of denunciation
registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
Articles.
Article 19
At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a
report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the
desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of
its revision in whole or in part.
Article 20
1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this
Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise
provides,
(a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention shall
ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention,
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 16 above, if and when the new
revising Convention shall have come into force;
(b) as from the date when the new revising Convention comes into
force, this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the
Members.
2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual
form and content for those Members which have ratified it but have not
ratified the revising Convention.
Article 21
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are
equally authoritative.
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