Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Greece (Ratification: 1982)

The Committee notes that the Government has no legislative changes to report.

Article 13(d) of the Convention. Occupational exposure during or after an emergency. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information provided by the Government that the dose limits for workers refers to the activities of a usual practice and it is forbidden to exceed the dose limits, whilst the limited dose levels refer to the framework of the principle of optimization and are lower than the dose limits; it also refers to individual practices so that there is no excess of the dose limits by the total practice. The Committee further notes the conditions and limits laid down by the Radiation Protection Regulation, sections 1.9 and 1.13(b), in emergency situations. The Committee also notes that the duration of an emergency situation is defined on a case-by-case basis. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the practical application of this Article.

Article 14. Alternative employment or other measures offered for maintaining income where continued assignment to work involving exposure is medically inadvisable. The Committee notes the Government’s response that section 9(2)(e) of Act No. 1568/85 on the health and safety of workers, provides that the labour physician provides a written recommendation to the employer regarding the change of post for health reasons. With reference to paragraph 32 of the 1992 general observation, the Committee again requests the Government to indicate measures taken or envisaged to ensure that alternative employment or other measures are offered to workers to enable them to maintain their income where continued assignment to work involving exposure is medically inadvisable.

Part V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee asks the Government to give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in the country and to provide, where such statistics exist, information on the number of workers covered by the legislation, the number and nature of the contraventions reported, and the number, nature and cause of accidents and occupational diseases reported.