Law Setting Forth Provisions On Seafarers Professional Education Signed Into Law

The Brazilian President signed the Law no. 13.194 of 24/11/2015, amending the Law no. 7.573 of December 23rd, 1986, which set forth provision on Seafarers Professional Education.

The bill which resulted in the approval of referred law is an initiative of the Ministry of Defense, by means of the Navy Command, considering that the entry into the Merchant Marine Officers Training School (EFOMM) were laid down by means of regulations and notifications supported by the Law no. 6.880 of 1980  and Law no. 11.279 of 2006, this latter repealed by the Law no. 12.704 of 2012

This legal framework was considered weak by the Federal Supreme Court, which understands that the requirements for joining the Armed Forces, being the EFOMM part of the armed forces, as well as considered as a military institution, must be defined by Law, being inappropriate the regulation in another normative type.