Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) - Portugal (Ratification: 1978)

Article 2, paragraph 2, and Article 7, of the Convention. The Committee notes the creation of the Economic and Social Council, under Act No. 108/91 of 17 August 1991, in which members of the different sectors of society will pronounce themselves on economic and social subjects. It requests the Government to provide the Office with the Regulations to be issued under section 2, subsection 2, in connection with section 15, according to which the Council will have the right of initiative in certain specific cases. It further asks the Government to inform it how the questions mentioned in the report form under present Articles of the Convention are treated in practice by the Council.

Article 9, paragraph 3. The Committee notes the draft amendment to Legislative Decree No. 264/B/81 concerning the entry, stay, departure and expulsion of foreigners, which has been approved by the Council of Ministers. It asks the Government to provide the Office with a copy of the final text (especially section 27, subsection 4, referred to in section 116, subsection 4 of the draft) and to inform it about the date of coming into force.

Articles 10 and 12(d). Please refer to the observation under Convention No. 97.