R63 Recommendation concerning Individual Control Books in Road Transport



Geneva, 28 giugno 1939


The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-fifth Session on 8 June 1939, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to individual control books in road transport, which is included in the fourth item on the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Control Books (Road Transport) Recommendation, 1939:

1. Each Member of the International Labour Organisation should provide for the drawing up of a standard form of individual control book to facilitate the supervision of the hours of work and rest periods of persons to whom the Hours of Work and Rest Periods (Road Transport) Convention, 1939, applies.
2. The individual control book should contain entries relating to the following points:
(a) the time at which the working day begins and the time at which it ends;
(b) time spent in work done during the running time of the vehicle;
(c) time spent in subsidiary work;
(d) periods of mere attendance;
(e) the duration of breaks for rest and interruptions of work during which the driver or attendant is free to dispose of his time as he pleases;
(f) periods of continuous driving time;
(g) weekly periods of rest;
(h) any extensions of hours of work beyond the normal limits and the circumstances in which such hours have been worked.
3. The competent authority should determine the conditions in which individual control books shall be issued.
4.
(1) The driver or attendant, as the case may be, or the employer should be required to enter daily the prescribed particulars under the various entries of the individual control book.
(2) In the case of classes of transport in respect of which it would be difficult to give the particulars specified in (b), (c), (d) and (f) of Paragraph 2, the particulars required to be entered might be limited to those specified in (a), (e), (g) and (h).
(3) In the case of classes of transport running to a fixed time-table, a statement of the time-table to which the driver or the attendant works might be permitted to be substituted for the detailed particulars specified in (a) to (f) of Paragraph 2.
5.
(1) Drivers and attendants should be required to carry their control books with them during their hours of work and to produce them on demand to the supervisory authorities.
(2) During the driver's or attendant's rest days the individual control book should be left at the garage and should be kept available for inspection by the supervisory authorities.


The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 90th Session on 3 June 2002, and Following consideration of the proposal for the withdrawal of several international labour Recommendations, which is the seventh item on the agenda of this session, decides this day of June of the year two thousand and two to withdraw the Control Books (Road Transport) Recommendation, 1939 (No. 63). The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization, as well as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, of this decision to withdraw the instrument. The English and French versions of the text of this decision are equally authoritative.


La Raccomandazione è stata ritirata il 3 giugno 2002

Fonte: ILO