Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

The Committee notes with interest the information supplied by the Government. It requests the Government to provide additional information on the following points.

Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that the schedule of types of work and occupations in which periodical medical examinations are required, as well as their regularity and the procedures for carrying them out, are determined by the Ministry of Public Health in agreement with the Confederation of Trade Unions. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the provisions empowering the Ministry of Public Health to determine these types of work and occupations.

Article 6. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report concerning the special schools for young persons with incurable infirmities with a view to providing them with the possibility of acquiring a trade. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures taken, in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article, by the competent authority for the vocational guidance and physical and vocational rehabilitation of young persons found by medical examination to be unsuited to certain types of work or to have physical handicaps or limitations, as well as the nature and scope of these measures. It requests the Government to provide detailed information concerning the cooperation between the various services for the purposes of paragraph 2 of this Article, and also concerning application of the provisions of paragraph 3.