Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Türkiye (Ratification: 1968)

1. The Committee notes the Government’s report, including a reply to observations of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DISK) and the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions of Turkey (TÜRKIYE KAMU-SEN), with regard to certain points on the application of the Convention. The Committee notes that in its reply the Government refers, inter alia, to provisions in the Implementing Regulations on Radiation Security - most recently updated on 29 September 2004 - but that this regulation was not appended to the report. The Committee requests the Government to submit a copy of the said Implementing Regulations on Radiation Security to the Committee to enable it to examine the issues addressed by DISK, TÜRKIYE KAMU-SEN and the Government.

2. With reference to a reply by the Government in its report of 2004 to a previous direct request, the Committee notes that the Government indicated that the Radiation Safety Regulation, the Regulation on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials, and the Regulation on National Nuclear and Radiological State of Emergency Administration, were in the process of being translated and that they would be communicated as soon as they had been completed. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the progress made in this respect and to submit to it translated copies of the said legislation as soon as they become available.

3. With reference to the observation of the TÜRKIYE KAMU-SEN that the Convention was not being implemented in practice, the Committee requests the Government to give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in Turkey, supplying, for example, statistical information, disaggregated by sex if available, on the number of workers covered by the measures giving effect to the Convention, extracts from reports of the inspection services and information concerning the number and nature of contraventions reported and the action taken on them, etc.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2006.]