自2019年以来，新西兰海事局(MNZ)一直在寻求改变福利筹资机制的方法，以响应新西兰海员福利委员会(SWB)、福利利益相关者和海洋人权组织(Human Rights at Seas)对有效和可持续变革的呼吁。

这项工作是更广泛的海上人权海事征税运动的一部分，该运动旨在提高全球所有海员的福利标准和设施。

2021年3月，通过了海事征税法修正案，规定征税资金必须用于改善海员福利，而不是以前的海员福利不是海事征税收入的强制性支出的情况。

MNZ目前正在举行一次公众咨询，并提议提高海事税和石油污染税，以确保充足和可持续的资金。咨询将于2023年7月19日至8月16日进行，将为“所有从新西兰海事局的业绩中受益并为该组织履行监管职能提供资金、参与税收的潜在变化的人和组织寻求意见和机会。”

背景文件“提供海员福利服务的方案”支持了这一咨询，并讨论如何提供由海事税资助的海员福利服务。

海上人权组织将在2022年11月发表的意见的基础上提交对此事的看法。这一举措的成功对于所有海事福利提供者获得有保证的资金以继续和改善对海员的支持至关重要。海上人权组织将继续与MNZ、政府部门和新西兰港口的前瞻***利提供者合作。

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英文原文

Since 2019, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has been seeking ways to deliver changes to welfare funding mechanisms in response to the New Zealand Seafarer Welfare Board’s (SWB), welfare stakeholders, and Human Rights at Seas calls for effective and sustainable changes.

This work forms part of the wider Human Rights at Sea Maritime Levy Campaign which aims to improve welfare standards and facilities for all seafarers globally.

In March 2021, amendments to maritime levy laws were passed, specifying that levy funds must be used to improve seafarers’ welfare, as opposed to the previous situation where seafarers’ welfare was not a mandatory expenditure from the proceeds of the maritime levy.

MNZ is now holding a public consultation and is proposing increases to the Maritime Levies and Oil Pollution Levies to ensure sufficient and sustainable funding. The consultation will run from 19 July to 16 August 2023 and will seek input and an “opportunity for all people and organisations that receive the benefits of Maritime NZ’s performance and fund the organization to carry out its regulatory functions, to engage on potential changes to levies.”

The background paper “Options for Delivery of Seafarer Welfare Services” supports the consultation and discusses how seafarer welfare services funded by maritime levies should be provided.

Human Rights at Sea will submit its views on the matter, which builds on its opinions issued in November 2022. The success of this initiative is crucial for all maritime welfare providers in terms of accessing assured funding to continue and improve support to seafarers. Human Rights at Sea will continue engaging with MNZ, government departments, and forward-leaning welfare providers in NZ ports.

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