Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 1967)

The Committee notes from the Government's reply to its previous observation that the draft Labour Code, which is to contain a provision establishing the principle of protection set forth in the Convention, has been adopted by the National Labour Council and is now to be adopted and promulgated by the competent national authorities. It hopes that the Labour Code will be adopted at the earliest possible date.

The Committee also expresses the hope that the draft Order on the guarding of machinery, which the Government referred to in its previous report and which was to bring the legislation into conformity with Articles 2 and 4 (prohibition of the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machinery of which the dangerous parts are without appropriate guards) and with Article 17 of the Convention (extension of the guarding of machinery to the agricultural sector) will also be adopted in the very near future.

Since the Committee has been pointing out for a number of years that measures should be taken to give effect to the above-mentioned provisions of the Convention, it trusts that the Government will be able to provide the text of the Labour Code and the above-mentioned Order with its next report. [The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1990.]