In vigor amendments to convention FAL that strengthen the right of the marine ones to the disembarkation



Yesterday Maritime Conventions on Facilitation of International have taken effect amendments to convention FAL (Traffics) that they strengthen the right of the marine ones to the new disembarkation and that they relatively introduce also obligation of the governments to the activation of electronic systems of exchange of information (EDI) for the exchange of information on the marine traffic that will have to be implemented within 8 April 2019 previewing the disposition of a period of transition of the duration of 12 months during which to allow the use is of documents in paper format that in electronic format.

Announcing the effectiveness of these amendments, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has remembered that convention FAL has been undersigned from 118 States.

Relatively to the permission of disembarkation for marine, the relative amendment it adds a disposition that it allows with the crew to disembark when the ship on which they are boarded finds in a port. The new disposition establishes that discriminations based on the nationality, the race, the color, the sex, the religion, the political opinion or the social origin of the marine ones cannot sussistere. Moreover the disembarkation permission must be granted independently from the State of flag of the ship on which the marine one is boarded. If a disembarkation question is rejected, the public authorities competent must supply an explanation to the member of the crew and to the commander of the ship and the disposition it establishes that these last ones can ask that the explanation is delivered they for member.

The convention also is updated and is widened its range relatively to the security and the prevention of the access of the clandestines to the ships. In particular, the new dispositions impose the governments to implement in the national legislation, where necessary, legal bases that they allow to pursue the clandestines or the societies that help a clandestine to approach the harbour areas, to the ships or to introduce itself in the container.

Moreover yesterday the new forms FAL of the IMO have taken effect that regard the general declaration (form n. 1), the declaration/load manifest (form n. 2), the declaration of the edge supplies (form n. 3), the declaration of the effects of the crew (form n. 4), the list of the crew (form n. 5), the list of the passengers (form n. 6) and dangerous of the goods (form n. 7). Three additional documents are introduced that can be demanded to the ships from the earth authorities: the information on the security demanded according to convention SOLAS, the pre-emptive electronic information on the cargo to the aims of the customs risk assessment and the module of pre-emptive notification of the bestowal of the refusals of the ships to the appropriate harbour systems.