General Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Equatorial Guinea

The Committee notes with deep concern that, for the last 15 years, the reports due on ratified Conventions have not been received. Fourteen reports are now due on fundamental and technical Conventions, most of which should have included information in reply to the Committee’s comments. Of these 14 reports, two are first reports on the application of the Food and Catering (Ships' Crews) Convention, 1946 (No. 68), and the Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 92), due since 1998. Even in the absence of these first reports, the Committee decided to examine last year the application of these Conventions on the basis of public information at its disposal.

On the basis of the decision of the Committee concerning the treatment of urgent appeals for countries that have not supplied reports due for the past three years or more, the Committee decided to examine at this session the application of Conventions Nos 87, 98, 100, 103, 105, 111, 138 and 182 based on public information at its disposal.

Recalling that technical assistance was provided on these issues by the ILO Decent Work Team for Central Africa, the Committee firmly hopes that the Government will soon submit all its reports due in accordance with its constitutional obligation and that they will respond to the Committee’s comments.