Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - Hungary (Ratification: 1994)

The Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending May 2000. It notes that, by virtue of Law No. 36 of 1998, the Ministry of Labour was abolished and that labour inspection is now attributed to the Ministry of Social and Family Affairs. It also notes that Law No. 122 of 1999 has amended Law No. 75 of 1996 governing labour inspection. The Government is therefore requested to transmit a copy of the two new texts as well as any other text which is related, whether directly or indirectly, to the composition, attributes, and operation of the labour inspection services in agricultural undertakings.

Noting the partial information provided by the Government in reply to the Committee’s previous comments, and the subsequent difficulty of giving an appreciation of the practical application of the Convention, the Committee requests that the Government transmit to the ILO a detailed report on the application of the Convention. This report should contain the information requested in the report form adopted by the Governing Body of the ILO, under each of its provisions, as well as under each of Parts I, II, IV, and V.

Recalling the attention of the Government to paragraphs 272 and subsequent paragraphs of its 1985 General Survey on labour inspection on the importance it attaches to the fulfilment of obligations resulting from Articles 26 and 27 of the Convention, the Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to take the necessary measures to ensure that an annual report on the activities of the labour inspection services containing the required information on each of the points identified in Article 27 will be formulated, and published by the central authority, and that a copy thereof shall be transmitted to the ILO in the form, and within the time limits established in Article 26. It would be grateful if the Government would indicate in its next report the measures it has taken, and the deadlines in which it is envisaged to give effect to the provisions of the Convention.