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

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous comments.

Article 7, paragraph 2, of the Convention. With regard to the methods of identification or other methods of supervision to be adopted for ensuring the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or in any other occupation carried on in the streets, the Committee requests the Government to take into consideration, when taking the legislative or regulatory measures on the basis of the analysis of the results obtained from the VALORA Plan, the indications contained in Recommendation No. 79 on the medical examination of young persons, particularly Paragraph 14 on methods of supervision designed to ensure the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged in itinerant trading or in any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access.

Moreover, the Committee invites the Government to refer to its comments under Convention No. 77.