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

• (b) a certification of colour vision shall be valid for a maximum period of six years.

• 10.In urgent cases the competent authority may permit a seafarer to work without a valid medical certificate until the next port of call where the seafarer can obtain a medical certificate from a qualified medical practitioner, provided that:

• (a) the period of such permission does not exceed three months; and

• (b) the seafarer concerned is in possession of an expired medical certificate of recent date.

• 11.If the period of validity of a certificate expires in the course of a voyage, the certificate shall continue in force until the next port of call where the seafarer can obtain a medical certificate from a qualified medical practitioner, provided that the period shall not exceed three months.

• 12.The medical certificates for seafarers working on ships ordinarily engaged on international voyages must as a minimum be provided in English.’

The subsequent sentences of Clause 13(1) and paragraph 13(2) become paragraphs 13 to 15;

6. Clause 16:

Replace first sentence with:

‘Every seafarer shall be entitled to paid annual leave. The annual leave with pay entitlement shall be calculated on the basis of a minimum of 2,5 calendar days per month of employment and pro rata for incomplete months.’.