92001E0299

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0299/01

by Hanja Maij-Weggen (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(9 February 2001)

Subject: Child labour

The Commission did not give a precise reply to my Question E-3639/00(1). Can the Commission state precisely which EU Member States and which ACP countries have not yet ratified ILO Convention No 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour?

(1) OJ C 151 E, 22.5.2001.

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(29 March 2001)

The Honourable Member is informed that, with regard to her question concerning the Member States which have not yet ratified International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No 182 on the worst forms of child labour, a matter on which the Commission adopted a Recommendation to Member States on 15 September 2000(1), the following Member States had not ratified the Convention in question as of 8 February 2001: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria and Sweden.

With regard to the Honourable Member's question regarding which African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have not ratified ILO Convention 182, a list of ratifying countries (including ACP countries) as of 8 February 2001, as provided on the ILO's public Ilolex information system, is being sent directly to the Honourable Member and to Parliament's Secretariat.

(1) OJ L 243, 28.9.2000.