Report of the 2024 CIC on MLC, 2006

From 1 September 2024 to 30 November 2024, the Black Sea MoU carried out a Concentrated
Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Crew Wages and Seafarer Employment Agreement under the
Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006). The campaign involved member Authorities of the Black
Sea MoU that have ratified the MLC, 2006. This CIC was conducted in conjunction with the Paris
and the Tokyo Memoranda, and other Regional PSC Regimes. The campaign was conducted under
the campaign coordination of the Maritime Administration of Bulgaria. Guidelines and
Questionnaires of the Paris and Tokyo Memoranda were used. The member authority of Georgia
used these resources for training purposes, given that the MLC, 2006 have been ratified but will
enter into force there on 14 February 2025.

This CIC applied to all ships and a ship was subjected to only one CIC inspection during the
campaign period. Over the course of the campaign, a total of 635 inspections were carried out by
the member Authorities of the BS MoU which are a party to MLC, 2006, covering 626 individual
ships. Among these, 553 inspections were carried out with the CIC questionnaire. During the CIC,
53 ships were detained in total. Of which, 45 detentions were the result of inspections with CIC
questionnaires and 4 of them were detained directly attributed to CIC-related deficiencies.

A total of 28 questionnaires had at least one non-compliance to any of the requirements, resulting
in 5.06 per cent of CIC inspections. The overall average per cent of nonconformities was 0.74 which
means that the “unsatisfactory” answer was given to any question under this CIC.

Report of CIC 2024 on MLC, 2006