Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2001, publiée 90ème session CIT (2002)

Requirement for the central inspection authority to publish and transmit to the ILO an annual inspection report. Several decades after ratification of this instrument no annual inspection report has yet been transmitted to the ILO. The Committee therefore draws the Government’s attention once again to the essential nature of the reporting obligation incumbent on the central inspection authority under Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention. It accordingly urges the Government to take the necessary steps as soon as possible to ensure that the central authority is in a position to fulfil the obligation. The purpose of publishing an annual report of the kind provided for in these Articles of the Convention is, in particular, to inform at the national level the social partners of the labour inspectorate’s activities and how effective they are, so that they may express any relevant views. The transmission of such reports to the ILO constitutes, at the international level, an indispensable basis for the supervisory bodies to monitor application of the Convention as part of a constructive dialogue with the Government.