Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1976)

The Committee requests the Government to supply information on any development in the measures taken or envisaged regarding the keeping of registers or documents concerning young persons under 18 years of age, in accordance with Article 9(3) of the Convention, on which it commented earlier.

The Committee asks the Government to indicate any development in the elaboration of the Minors' Code, on the draft of which the ILO commented in 1994.

The Committee also notes that the first report of the Government on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was examined by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 4th Session in January 1994, and that during the discussion a Government representative stated that little information was available on the violations of labour law affecting children, that supervisory mechanisms are not sufficiently developed, and that many (one-third) of the working minors may be found in agriculture, producing the main exports of the country such as coffee and banana, which needs seasonal workers. The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the application in practice of the Convention, in accordance with point V of the report form, including statistical data and extracts from official reports.