Having regard to the complaint registered as number 30/2004, lodged on 4 April 2005 by the Maragopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR) and signed by its President, Alice YOTOPOULOS-MARANGOPOULOS, requesting the Committee to find that Greece is not in conformity with Articles 11, 2§4, 3§1 and 3§2 of the European Social Charter (“the Charter”); Having regard to the documents appended to the complaint; Having regard to the Charter, and in particular to Articles 11, 2§4, 3§1 and 3§2, which read as follows: Article 11 – The right to protection of health Part I "Everyone has the right to benefit from any measures enabling him to enjoy the highest possible standard of health attainable." Part II: "With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to protection of health, the Parties undertake, either directly or in cooperation with public or private organisations, to take appropriate measures designed inter alia: 1. to remove as far as possible the causes of ill-health; 2. to provide advisory and educational facilities for the promotion of health and the encouragement of individual responsibility in matters of health; 3. to prevent as far as possible epidemic, endemic and other diseases." Article 2 – The right to just conditions of work Part I "All workers have the right to just conditions of work." Part II: "With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to just conditions of work, the Contracting Parties undertake: […] 4. to provide for additional paid holidays or reduced working hours for workers engaged in dangerous or unhealthy occupations as prescribed"; Article 3 – The right to safe and healthy working conditions Part I: "All workers have the right to safe and healthy working conditions." Part II: "With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to safe and healthy working conditions, the Contracting Parties undertake: 1. to issue safety and health regulations; 2. to provide for the enforcement of such regulations by measures of supervision". Having regard to the Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter providing for a system of collective complaints ("the Protocol"); Having regard to the Rules of the Committee adopted by the Committee on 29 March 2004 at its 201st session ("the Rules"); Having deliberated on 10 October 2005;

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