By the end of November 2023, fishermen working on a UK vessel must have a certificate of medical fitness either the ML5 or ENG1.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) advertised the requirement earlier this year, and since then we have received lots of your questions, thoughts and feedback.
We want you to be as prepared as possible ahead of the requirement coming into force, so weve created guidance to answer all of your medical certificate questions.
Published 24 March 2023 Last updated 10 April 2024 +show all updates
section 3, changed to reflect introduction of MSN 1915
Updated Q3, Q10, Q11, and deleted Q14 re-numbering later items.
Amendment to text within Question 16.
Updated to question 16 on the ML5 side of the table in the 6th row.
Updated to advise of the maximum validity of an ML5 and the inclusion of additional information at question 17.