Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes that, according to the Government’s report, the technical advisory committee, the organization and operation of which were established by Decree No. 99-130 of 17 February 1999, will be responsible for the formulation of texts specifically relating to the various branches of activity and will not fail, at the same time, to examine the effect that is given to the provisions of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the above texts will contain provisions giving effect to Articles 2 and 4 of the Convention, which provide that the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machinery, of which the dangerous parts specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 2 are without appropriate guards, shall be prohibited, and specifying that the obligation to ensure compliance with these provisions shall rest on the vendor, the person letting out on hire or transferring the machinery in any other manner, the exhibitor or the manufacturer when he sells the machinery, lets it out on hire, transfers it in any other manner or exhibits it (Article 4).

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to ensure that the above texts are adopted in the very near future and requests the Government to keep it informed in this respect and to provide a copy of the texts once they are adopted.