Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2000, publiée 89ème session CIT (2001)

The Committee notes the statement by the Government in its report that a Bill on Public Markets is at present before the Council of Ministers for examination and adoption. In this connection, the Committee requests the Government to explain the relation between this Bill on Public Markets and public contracts, which is the subject matter of the Convention. It also recalls that this Convention obliges the Government to take steps to ensure that the public contracts included under Article 1(1) of the Convention contain the appropriate labour clauses, in conformity with Article 2, so as to guarantee that the conditions of employment (including wages) of workers employed under public contracts are not less favourable than those established for work of the same character in the trade or industry concerned in the district where the work is carried on.

The Committee hopes that this new legislation will be adopted in the very near future and will contain the provisions to apply the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to supply a copy of this Act as soon as it is adopted.