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:

The Committee notes from the Government's report that there are very few exceptions to the prohibition of the use of white lead and sulphate of lead, and of all products containing these pigments, in the internal painting of buildings set forth in the Grand Ducal Decree of 30 March 1932. It recalls that under Article 1 of the Convention exceptions can be made where the use of white lead, sulphate of lead or other products containing these pigments is considered necessary for railway stations or industrial establishments by the competent authority after consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned. The Government is, therefore, requested to provide further information in its next report on the type of situations for which exceptions to the prohibition of the use of white lead were made and to indicate the manner in which the employers' and workers' organizations concerned were consulted.

The Committee further notes that the Government has not supplied any statistics concerning lead poisoning among working painters, as requested in the report form under Article 7 of the Convention. The Government is, therefore, requested to provide statistics on morbidity and mortality due to lead poisoning in its next report.