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1. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s latest report.

2. The Committee notes that most of the legal and regulatory instruments giving effect to the Convention mentioned in the report were adopted in the 1970s and 1980s in the former USSR. The Committee also notes, however, that work is under way for the elaboration of the national standards and regulations which, once adopted, would replace the instruments of the former USSR presently in force in Azerbaijan. Against this background, the Committee takes this opportunity to recall that the Governing Body of the ILO has invited parties to Convention No. 32 to consider ratification of the Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Convention, 1979 (No. 152), which revised Convention No. 32. Such ratification would automatically entail an immediate denunciation of Convention No. 32 (GB.286/LILS/5(Rev.1), paragraphs 99-101). The Committee would therefore like to encourage the Government to take the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Convention, 1979 (No. 152) into account in the context of this ongoing legislation reform, which would contribute to effective accident prevention for dockworkers in the country.

3. In the meantime, the Committee invites the Government to do its utmost to give full effect to the provisions of the Convention and, in this context, take into account the ILO’s newly adopted code of practice in this area, Safety and health in ports, Geneva, 2005. This code of practice is available on the ILO’s web site by the following link, http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/
cops/english/index.htm. The Committee requests the Government to provide, in its next report, any information on the progress achieved in these respects.