Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2007, Publicación: 97ª reunión CIT (2008)

1. The Committee notes the report of the Government on the application of the Convention through the Law on Safety and Health at Work (No. 101/105) and the Rule Book on hygiene and technical protection measures at port transportation work (Official Gazette of SFRY (No. 14/64)) as well as the information from the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (CATUS) that implementation of this Convention was ongoing. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes that the abovementioned Rule Book, which appears to be a central piece of legislation in relation to the application of the Convention, is not available to the Committee. The Committee requests the Government to transmit this text to the Committee together with, if possible, a translation thereof into one of the working languages of the ILO, in order to enable the Committee to determine the extent to which the Convention is applied in the country.

2. Part V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee notes the information that in 2006 the inspectorate carried out 160 regular inspections covering 14,932 employees and 82 “control” inspections covering 7,660 employees and that 59 inquiries into occupational injuries were carried out. The Committee requests the Government to provide further details, as available, regarding inspections of activities covered by the Convention and the result of these inspections, including information regarding the number and nature of infractions noted.

3. The Committee takes the opportunity to recall that the Governing Body of the ILO has invited parties to Convention No. 32 to consider ratification of Convention No. 152, which revised Convention No. 32 (GB.268/LILS/5(Rev.1), paragraphs 99–101). Such ratification would automatically entail an immediate denunciation of Convention No. 32. The Committee also wishes to bring to the Government’s attention an ILO code of practice in this area, Safety and health in ports, Geneva, 2005. This code of practice is available, inter alia, through the ILO’s web site by following the link, http://www.ilo.org/public/ english/protection/safework/cops/english/index.htm. The Government is requested to keep the Committee informed of any developments in this respect.