Council Directive 2009/13/EC 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, and amending Directive 1999/63/EC (c. 13)

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ANNEX U.K.

AGREEMENT concluded by the ECSA and the ETF on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

THE REGULATIONS AND THE STANDARDS U.K.

TITLE 5 U.K. COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT U.K.

Regulation 5.1.5 — On-board complaint procedures U.K.

1. Each Member State shall require that ships that fly its flag have on-board procedures for the fair, effective and expeditious handling of seafarer complaints alleging breaches of the requirements of the Convention (including seafarers’ rights). U.K.

2. Each Member State shall prohibit and penalise any kind of victimisation of a seafarer for filing a complaint. U.K.

3. The provisions in this Regulation are without prejudice to a seafarer’s right to seek redress through whatever legal means the seafarer considers appropriate. U.K.

Standard A5.1.5 — On-board complaint procedures U.K.

1. Without prejudice to any wider scope that may be given in national laws or regulations or collective agreements, the on-board procedures may be used by seafarers to lodge complaints relating to any matter that is alleged to constitute a breach of the requirements of the Convention (including seafarers’ rights). U.K.

2. Each Member State shall ensure that, in its laws or regulations, appropriate on-board complaint procedures are in place to meet the requirements of Regulation 5.1.5. Such procedures shall seek to resolve complaints at the lowest level possible. However, in all cases, seafarers shall have a right to complain directly to the master and, where they consider it necessary, to appropriate external authorities. U.K.

3. The on-board complaint procedures shall include the right of the seafarer to be accompanied or represented during the complaints procedure, as well as safeguards against the possibility of victimisation of seafarers for filing complaints. The term ‘victimisation’ covers any adverse action taken by any person with respect to a seafarer for lodging a complaint which is not manifestly vexatious or maliciously made. U.K.

4. In addition to a copy of their seafarers’ employment agreement, all seafarers shall be provided with a copy of the on-board complaint procedures applicable on the ship. This shall include contact information for the competent authority in the flag State and, where different, in the seafarers’ country of residence, and the name of a person or persons on board the ship who can, on a confidential basis, provide seafarers with impartial advice on their complaint and otherwise assist them in following the complaint procedures available to them on board the ship. U.K.