Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its last report.

1. With reference to Articles 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 of the Convention, please see under Convention No. 77, as follows:

Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. In the comments it has been making for several years, the Committee has drawn the Government's attention to the lack of any provisions in the laws or regulations to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. The Government has referred on several occasions to the adoption of the General Regulations of the Act respecting health, occupational safety and welfare, which was to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. The Committee also noted that regulations were being prepared on company medical services.

The Committee notes that the Government indicates in its report that the General Regulations of the Act respecting health, occupational safety and welfare, as well as the specific regulations on medical certification for young persons in industry, are in the process of being prepared despite the scarce human, material and technical resources available. The Committee hopes that the above regulations will be adopted in the very near future and that the Government will provide a copy of them as soon as they have been promulgated.

2. The Government refers in its last report to a number of difficulties that arise in practice in providing medical supervision for young persons in non-industrial occupations due to the variety of activities that they undertake in commerce, services and the informal sector, where permanent medical units are not always available. In this connection, the Committee invites the Government to take into account the Medical Examination of Young Persons Recommendation (No. 79), and in particular Paragraph 14 on methods of application to young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access.

The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures that have been adopted or are envisaged in order to overcome the difficulties referred to above and to ensure that effect is given in practice to the provisions of the Convention.