Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2005, Publicación: 95ª reunión CIT (2006)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report for the period ending July 2003 contains information of a general nature which only relates to the Republic of Serbia. It asks the Government to provide a detailed report for the whole of the country containing full information in reply to each of the questions in the report form approved by the Governing Body. The Committee asks the Government to ensure that its next report contains the necessary information on the following aspects of the application of the Convention, in both the Republic of Serbia and in the Republic of Montenegro.

1. Close link with employment. Please indicate the various bodies that are competent in the field of vocational guidance and vocational training, with an indication of whether formal cooperation procedures have been established or are envisaged between them. Please indicate the manner in which it is ensured that policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training are closely linked with employment prospects (Article 1, paragraphs 1 to 4, of the Convention).

2. Openness, flexibility and complementarity of systems. Please provide a full description of the systems of general, technical and vocational education, educational and vocational guidance and vocational training. Please indicate the manner in which the complementarity is ensured of initial and further vocational training activities which take place within and outside the school system (Article 2).

3. Vocational guidance. Please describe the measures adopted to ensure that comprehensive and updated information and the broadest possible guidance are made available to all children, young persons and adults. Please describe the types of information made available and provide examples of the documentation made available (Article 3).

4. Vocational training. Please provide detailed information on the measures adopted or envisaged to extend initial and further vocational training systems and to adapt them to changing requirements, in accordance with Article 4 of the Convention.

5. Cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations. Please describe the measures adopted to ensure the cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations and, where applicable, other interested bodies in the formulation and implementation of vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes. Please provide detailed information on any consultative machinery which may have been instituted for this purpose.

6. Application in practice. Please provide any extracts of reports, studies, inquiries or statistical data which make it possible to assess the effect given to the provisions of the Convention in practice (Part VI of the report form).