CRC/C/15/Add.222 page 2 (d) trafficking; The changes to the Criminal Code improving the protection of minors from (e) The approval by the President (August 2003) of the National Plan of Action for Children (2003-2007); (f) The ratification (July 2003) of ILO Convention No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour of 1999; (g) The ratification of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption of 1993; (h) The ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction of 1997. C. Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Convention 4. The Committee notes that the State party is prone to natural disasters (last earthquake 2002) and is experiencing serious socio-economic problems due, inter alia, to the transition to a market-oriented economy. Furthermore, the ethnic and political conflicts (regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia), create serious obstacles for the State party in exercising its jurisdiction with regard to the implementation of the Convention in those regions. D. Principal subjects of concern and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation The Committee’s previous recommendations 5. The Committee welcomes the efforts made by the State party to address some of the concerns and recommendations (CRC/C/15/Add.124) it made upon consideration of the State party’s initial report (CRC/C/41/Add.4/Rev.1), but regrets that many have not or have insufficiently been addressed, (inter alia those contained in paragraphs 15, 25, 31, 35, 45 and 55). The Committee notes that those concerns and recommendations are reiterated in the present document. 6. The Committee urges the State party to make every effort to address those recommendations from the concluding observations on the initial report that have not yet been implemented and to address the list of concerns contained in the present concluding observations on the second periodic report. Legislation 7. The Committee welcomes the many legislative changes (see paragraph 3 above) introduced with a view to improving the protection of children’s rights, but is concerned at the rather scattered nature of these legislative activities and at the sometimes large gap between the laws and their implementation in practice.