Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Dock Work Convention, 1973 (No. 137) - Norway (Ratification: 1974)

The Committee notes the Government's last report and the observations provided by the Norwegian Shipowners' Association, the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHO) and the Confederation of Trade Unions in Norway (LO). The Government is asked to comment, where it considers it appropriate, on the observations provided by these representative organizations. It is also asked to provide in its next report detailed information on the following points:

Points III and V of the report form. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide general information on the practical application of the Convention, for example, by providing copies of extracts from reports produced by the authorities responsible for applying the laws and regulations, as well as any available information on the number of dockworkers on the registers maintained in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention and any variation in their number.

Point IV. Although not referred to in the Government's report, the Committee has taken note of the Supreme Court judgement of Sola Havn AS and Stavanger Havnelager AS vs. Norwegian Union of Transport Workers delivered on 5 March 1997, which is of relevance to the application of the Convention and trusts that the Government will provide any other relevant information requested on this point.