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REPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS
ITALY
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4. The Italian Government expresses the opinion that, while leaving it to national law to settle in detail the conditions for granting certificates, it is desirable to indicate in the Draft Convention that such conditions are to be directed towards securing the following guarantees :
(a) a minimum age;
(b) a certain professional training, consisting in a period of service at sea and a qualifying period in the engine- room or in workshops:
(c) the passing of one or more examinations organised and
supervised by the State.
The Italian Government suggests, further, that it is desirable to add to such guarantees the requirement of a suitable physical fitness, especially as regards sight and hearing.
JAPAN
4. The reply is in the affirmative.
LATVIA
While leaving it to national laws or regulations to settle in detail the conditions for granting certificates, it would be desirable to indicate in the international regulations that these conditions as a whole are to be directed towards securing the following guarantees :
(a) a minimum age, but without fixing an international
minimum
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(b) a certain minimum of practical experience;
(c) the passing of an examination.
4.
NETHERLANDS
The Government of the Netherlands is of the opinion that regulations concerning the points mentioned under this question should be included in a Recommendation and not in a Draft Convention.
NORWAY
4. The reply is in the affirmative.
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POLAND
QUESTION 4
4. The Draft Convention should lay down certain essential conditions for the granting of certificates, and in particular :
(a) a minimum age;
(b) a certain standard of experience;
(e) the passing of examinations supervised by the public
authorities.
RUMANIA
4. The reply is in the affirmative.
SOUTH AFRICA
See reply under Question 1, ante. p. 18.
SPAIN
4. The reply is in the affirmative. Twenty-three years is suggested as the minimum age for persons who are to perform the duties in question, i.e. as masters or officers in charge of a watch.
In particular cases it should also be required for service on certain vessels that the persons concerned should have spent a number of years at sea or as apprentices in the engine-room or in workshops, as the case may be.
The passing of one or more examinations organised and supervised by the public authorities should be required for obtaining the certificates of capacity in question.
SWEDEN
4. An affirmative reply can be given to this question, provided that the Convention contemplated will only stipulate in quite a general way that national laws or regulations are to settle the provisions relating to these matters.
YUGOSLAVIA
4. The reply is in the affirmative.
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