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

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Serbia (Ratification: 2000)

The Committee has noted with interest the information provided by the Government in its first report on the application of the Convention. It requests the Government to supply with its next report, copies of the updated and consolidated texts of the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedural Code, laws and regulations governing the execution of criminal sentences, law on compulsory military service and legislation concerning a state of emergency, as well as additional information on the following points.

Article 2(2)(a) of the Convention. Please indicate what guarantees are provided to ensure that services exacted under compulsory military service laws are used for purely military ends. Please supply copies of provisions governing alternative (non-military) service in the case of persons who have conscientious objections for religious or other reasons, to which reference is made in article 137 of the Federal Constitution. Please also indicate any provisions applicable to military officers and other career members of the armed forces as regards their right to leave the service, in time of peace, at their own request, either at certain reasonable intervals or by means of notice of reasonable length.

Article 2(2)(c). Please indicate what guarantees are provided to ensure that convicted persons are not hired or placed at the disposal of private individuals, companies or associations. Please also provide information on provisions governing the work of convicted persons and supply copies of relevant texts.

Article 2(2)(d). Please state what guarantees are provided to ensure that work exacted in case of emergency shall cease as soon as the circumstances that endanger the population or its normal living conditions no longer exist.

Article 25. Please indicate any penal provisions punishing the illegal exaction of forced or compulsory labour and provide information on any legal proceedings which have been instituted as a consequence of the application of this Article, as well as on any penalties imposed. Please indicate, in particular, whether any measures, legislative or otherwise, have been adopted to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in human beings for the purpose of exploitation, and whether any legal proceedings have been instituted to punish perpetrators.