Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1987, published 74th ILC session (1987)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Spain (Ratification: 1971)

The Committee notes with interest the provisions of Act No. 14 of 25 April 1986, issuing general regulations respecting all the measures needed to give effect to the right to health protection that is recognised in section 43 and other sections of the Constitution. The Government states in its report that regulations may be issued under section 21, paragraph 1(e) of the above Act fixing standards for the compulsory medical examination of young persons engaged in non-industrial activities.

The Committee trusts that the above regulations will be adopted and that they will include provisions for the medical examination specified in the Convention for children and young persons working on their own account in non-industrial work or employed in domestic service (Article 1, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention). The Committee also hopes that measures of identification will be adopted in order to ensure the application of the system of medical examinations for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either on 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 has access (Article 7, paragraph 2(a)). The Committee asks the Government to indicate in its report any progress made in this connection.