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The Committee notes with interest the adoption of Act No. 88-07 of 26 January 1988 respecting health, safety and occupational medicine. It trusts that the regulations provided for under section 17 of the Act will be issued in the near future and will ensure that effect is given to the following provisions of the Convention: Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention (prohibition from employing children and young persons under 18 years of age unless they have been found fit for the work in which they are to be employed); Article 2, paragraphs 2 to 4 (medical examination for fitness for employment to be carried out by a physician approved by the competent authority; definition of the conditions relating to the issuing of the certificate of fitness); Article 3 (medical supervision to be maintained until the age of 18 years); Article 4 (annual medical examinations until the age of 21 years in occupations that involve high health risks); and Article 5 (medical examinations not to involve the child or young person, or his parents, in any expense); Article 7, paragraph 2(a) (measures of identification to be adopted for ensuring the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either or their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or in any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access).

The Committee trusts that the next report will contain full information on these points and, if appropriate, a copy of the regulations issued under the above Act.