Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Article 2, paragraph 2(d), of the Convention. Recourse to compulsory labour under emergency powers. Referring to its earlier comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that, following the amendment introduced by Act No. 3536/2007 concerning “Special Regulations of Migration Policy Issues and other issues under the competence of the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization” (section 41(7)), Legislative Decree No. 17 of 1974 on “civil emergency planning”, under which the full or partial mobilization of civilians may be proclaimed, shall be applicable only in times of war. As regards requisition in times of peace, the Committee noted previously that, under section 41 of the new Act, the requisition of personal services is possible only in case of emergency, i.e. in a “sudden situation requiring the taking of immediate measures to face the country’s defensive needs or a social emergency against any type of imminent natural disaster or emergency that might endanger the public health”.