ILO는 1919년 설립부터 채택된 노동협약의 당사국 이행증진을 모니터링하기 위해서 정기적으로 연차보고서를 제출하도록 규정하였다. 그리고 총회에서는 제출된 보고서를 검토하는 절차를 마련했다. 이러한 제도를 정기적 감독 제도라 한다. 그러나 동 제도는 계획과는 달리 시간 소모적이고 전문적인 작업이었기 때문에 총회에서 실시하는데 한계가 있었다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 서 현재의 전문가위원회와 기준준수위원회를 설립하였으며, 이 제도는 특별절 차와 함께 ILO의 목적을 달성시키는 데 있어서 효과적인 제도적 장치로 평가 받고 있다. 이 논문은 해사노동협약 당사국의 정기적인 감독 제도의 연혁적 고찰을 통해서 국제법적으로 동 제도가 갖는 의의를 재조명하였다. 또한 해사노동협약의 국제법적 의의와 협약논의 과정부터 제기되었던 협약의 구성, 형식 그리고 탄력적인 규정과 관련된 국제법적인 쟁점을 고찰하였다. 이를 통해서 정기적 감 독 제도에 대응하기 위한 우리나라의 이행 방향을 제시하였다.

This study intends to present a direction for the better reforming of fishers'onboard living conditions and proposals for preparing for ratification of the Work in Fishing Convention by means of making a comparison between standards on recent national fishing vessel accommodation facilities and standards on the Work in Fishing Convention and Its Recommendation, 2007, ILO. For the most part of standards on national fishing vessel accommodation facilities are somewhat insufficient to satisfy the provisions in Annex III of the Convention. Considering by items on fishing vessel accommodation facilities, the standards on insect protector, noise and vibration, heating and air conditioning, lighting, persons per sleeping room, recreational facility are not provided in national law. Headroom, separation of accommodation, sleeping room floor area, mattress size, mess room, galley and food storage are partially sufficient for the Convention. In case of sanitary facilities, national standards are not sufficient for the Convention. The other side, facilities related safety of ship and crew such as emergency escape etc., are fully sufficient for the Convention. These insufficiencies caused by different types of fishing vessel depend on originality of fishing method and practices. In the comparison between equivalent tonnage about vessel's length on convention and calculated tonnage of national existing fishing vessel, the difference are 226tons about length 24m and 501tons about length 45m. For that reason, headroom, persons per sleeping room, cabin of sicker and injured, sanitary facilities may decide to use gross tonnage in place of length (L) and the alleviating measure basis of convention. But in case of standards on sanitary facilities which are unsufficient for the Convention, specially in coastal fishing vessel length basis should be adopted with alleviating basis for less than length 24m.

Since Korean Seamen Act(herein after called "the Act") has been legislated in 1962, an amendment of the Act has duly performed several times in order to meet an essential guideline of appropriate international convention and practical requirement of domestic labour movement. As the Act in many area, is based on the application of international convention and regulations, it has been considered essential to call attention to such international rules, to emphasize their importance, and to indicate how and to what extent they may be incorporated in national law, in accordance with national constitutional rules and requirements. Of newly amended act in 1991, it could, however, not fully reflect an adequate and modern labour standard as a guideline of the convention. Therefore, a principal objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive reference work to assist amending up-to-data seamen act against the Act. The guidelines, however, do not attempt to suggest or formulate a legislative programme, but rather provide an ordered and specific content corresponding to international convention adopted by ILO. Consequentially, these guidelines aim to direct the reader and legislator toward the sources and contents of what has come to constitute an international code of maritime labour standards. The guidelines described herein may also serve as a specific arrangement to the various kinds of legal aspects to be regulated through reasonable future amendment under amicable agreement between interesting parties.g parties.