Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes with interest the detailed information provided by the Government in reply to its direct request of December 1995. In its report, received in October 2002, the Government provides information on the effect given to Articles 2, 5 and 8 of the Convention, particularly through the implementation of measures for the vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities in the general context of the National Action Plan of Employment and the measures adopted and envisaged under the National Programme for the Development of Living Conditions for Citizens with Disabilities in All Areas of Life, the impact of which is to be evaluated annually. The Government adds that this active policy is implemented in consultation with the representative organizations of persons with disabilities, such as the Slovak Union of Disabled Persons and the Association of Disabled Citizens, through the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Issues of Citizens with Disabilities (RV SR POZP), with the support of the European Union’s PHARE programme.

The Committee requests the Government to continue providing, as requested in Part V of the report form, a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied, including for example statistics, extracts from reports, studies and inquiries concerning the matters covered by the Convention, and in particular the future annual evaluation reports of the RV SR POZP available in English on the implementation of the National Programme for the Development of Living Conditions for Citizens with Disabilities in All Areas of Life.