Hague Memorandum 1978
The 1978 Hague Memorandum was the West European port State arrangement on shipboard living and working conditions that the Paris MoU superseded in 1982.
The Hague Memorandum is the “Memorandum of Understanding between Certain Maritime Authorities on the Maintenance of Standards on Merchant Ships”, signed on 2 March 1978 by maritime Authorities in Western Europe. According to the Paris MoU’s own history, it dealt mainly with the enforcement of shipboard living and working conditions required by ILO Convention No. 147.
Section 9.3 of the Paris MoU states that the 1982 Memorandum supersedes it. The full article will cover its signatories, its scope under ILO 147, and how the Amoco Cadiz casualty of March 1978 widened the regional agenda from labour standards to safety and pollution prevention.