A first meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee under the MLC, 2006, attended by representatives of seafarers, shipowners and Governments, was held at ILO in Geneva in April 2014. The meeting considered and unanimously adopted two sets of proposed amendments to the code of the MLC, 2006 (regulations, standards and guidelines). The first set of amendments related to regulation 2.5 – “Repatriation”, and the second one related to regulation 4.2 – “Shipowners’ liability”.