Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 7 of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's statement in its report that no new provisions have been introduced in the laws or regulations. In a request addressed to the Government in 1988, the Committee referred to Article 7 of the Convention under which statistics with regard to lead poisoning among working painters shall be obtained: (a) as to morbidity - by notification and certification of all cases of lead poisoning; and (b) as to mortality - by a method approved by the official statistical authority in each country.

The Committee asked the Government to supply with its report the statistics called for by Article 7 of the Convention on cases of morbidity and mortality caused by lead poisoning, as also required by the report form under Article 7. In the absence of a reply to this point, the Committee hopes that the information requested will be provided with the next report.