The Role of International Law Status in Recognition of Qualifications of Sailors and Workers at Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms in European Union Law

Abstract

The paper is written with the purpose to analyze international law norms determining the status of sailors and workers of offshore oil and gas platforms, as well as European Union instruments regulating systems of professional recognition for specific vocations. To achieve the goal the author applies the methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison and description of rules of law. The problem of determining an international law status of workers of oil and gas platforms results in weakening safety requirements at sea, complicating labor mobility of citizens of these professions, as well as complicating their professional recognition in the European Union. The research highlights an interdisciplinary problem that involves international and regional regulatory levels and suggests the ways to resolve it.