Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Iraq (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes with satisfaction the adoption and transmission to the ILO of Internal Regulations No. 1 (2006) concerning the Control of the use of Radioactive Sources in Iraq (2006 Regulations) issued by the Radioactive Source Regulatory Authority that these regulations provide for the steps to be taken to ensure effective protection of workers against ionizing radiations and to restrict the exposure of workers to the lowest practicable level avoiding any unnecessary exposure, as prescribed under Articles 3(1), 5, 6(2) and 11 of the Convention, including established dose limits for the various categories of persons referred to in the Convention, and that the dose limits so prescribed are in accordance with the 1990 Recommendation of the International Commission on Radiological Protection to which the Committee refers in its 1992 general observation under the Convention.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.