Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1972)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. 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 matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 18, paragraph 4, of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes from the Government's report that section 19 of Decree No. 13466-TSS of 1982 will be amended so that it provides for the notification of preventive measures that have been ordered in the field of occupational health, not only to employers but also to workers' representatives. It trusts that the necessary measures to give full effect to this provision of the Convention will be taken in the near future.

See also under Convention No. 81, as follows:

Articles 10, 11, 16, 20 and 21 of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes that the National Labour Inspectorate lacks the necessary human and material resources to fully apply these provisions of the Convention, but that the Government is still prepared to install a computerized data processing system in the Records Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, with trained personnel, so that all the necessary information can be compiled for the annual report of the labour inspection services. The Committee also notes the annual report of the National Labour Inspectorate which the Government was able to provide. The report contains only part of the information requested under Article 21 of the Convention, namely, statistics of inspection visits (paragraph (d)) and statistics of violations (paragraph (e)).

The Committee recalls that, under the Convention, the number of inspectors and the facilities made available to them must be sufficient to secure the effective discharge of their duties and, in particular, to ensure that workplaces are inspected as frequently and thoroughly as is necessary, and that full annual reports are published regularly. The Committee trusts that the measures under consideration will be taken in the very near future so that annual inspection reports containing all the information requested in Article 21 can be published and sent to the International Labour Office within the period laid down in Article 20.