Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

In its previous comments, the Committee expressed the hope that the implementing texts of the Occupational Safety and Health Code which, according to the Government, were being drafted would give effect to the provisions of the Convention, particularly Articles 2 and 4 which provide that the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibiting of machinery of which the dangerous parts specified in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 2 are without appropriate guards must be prohibited, and that the obligation to ensure compliance with these provisions must rest on the vendor, the person letting out on hire or transferring the machinery in any other manner, or the exhibitor, as well as on the manufacturer when he sells machinery, lets it out on hire, transfers it in any other manner or exhibits it. In the absence of any information from the Government, the Committee once again requests information on any progress made in this respect including a copy of the implementing texts, as soon as they have been adopted.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.