Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1996, Publicación: 85ª reunión CIT (1997)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government.

The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the application of Article 7, paragraph 2 (procedures enabling workers or their representatives to present proposals on measures to improve protection against occupational hazards), Article 8, paragraph 4 (description of the procedures for ensuring that the criteria and exposure limits established are supplemented and reviewed at regular intervals in the light of current national and international knowledge and data) and Article 12 (notification to the competent authority of the use of processes, substances, machinery and equipment which involve exposure of workers to occupational hazards due to air pollution, noise or vibration in the working environment) of the Convention.

The Committee asks the Government to provide further information on the following points.

Article 5, paragraph 3. The Committee notes that the regulations on the conclusion of collective agreements, currently in force, and the future Act on collective and other agreements, the draft of which has been submitted to the National Assembly, are the instruments which govern, or will govern, relations between the employer (administration of the enterprise) and workers in the area of protection at work. The Committee asks the Government to provide a copy of the above-mentioned regulations and of the text of the future Act, as soon as it has been adopted.

Article 5, paragraph 4. The Committee notes that inspectors monitor compliance with standards and regulations in the presence of representatives of the enterprise. The Committee asks the Government to indicate under which provisions the representatives of the employer of the enterprise may accompany inspectors supervising the application of the measures prescribed.

Article 6, paragraph 2. The Committee notes the Government's statement that collaboration between employers undertaking activities simultaneously at one workplace is established, as a general rule, on the basis of an agreement concerning the activity conducted jointly. The Committee asks the Government to indicate which provisions require employers to collaborate in the event of joint or other activities at one workplace, and to provide information on all procedures prescribed to ensure such collaboration.