Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974 (No. 139) - Italy (Ratification: 1981)

The Committee notes that no report has been received from the Government. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

The Committee has noted that while the Government's report contained information on the activities of the European community concerning prevention against risks of exposure to carcinogenic substances and agents, it did not reply to the Committee's direct request of 1986 concerning the following matters:

In its first report, the Government had expressed its intention of drafting a legislative instrument, under Act No. 833/78 respecting the institution of the national health service, to be valid for all carcinogenic substances and agents and based on the model of the regulations on the prevention of risks due to the industrial use of aromatic amines set out in Ministry of Labour Circulars No. 46 of 12 June 1979 and No. 61 of 4 June 1981.

As the report of the Government for the period ending 30 June 1985 contained no information on any progress made in this connection, the Committee again expresses the hope that the above-mentioned legislative instrument will be adopted in due course and that it will ensure the application of the Convention to the other carcinogenic substances and agents determined by the competent authority, consideration being given to the information contained in the Codes of Practice published by the ILO (Article 1, paragraph 3, of the Convention).

The Committee also took note of the explanations given by the Government of the difficulties in collecting information on the practical application of the Convention - difficulties due to the fact that the local health units responsible for the work of labour inspection were autonomous territorial bodies outside the hierarchy of central state administration. The Committee nevertheless hopes that the Government will do everything possible to provide with its next report the information on practice called for at point IV of the report form adopted by the Governing Body, indicating, in particular, the carcinogenic substances and agents to which occupational exposure is expressly prohibited by the competent national authorities and the practical measures taken to give effect to Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to supply the above requested information in its next report. [The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1990.]