title: Decree No. 17965-S promulgating Regulations on the functioning of the National Commission on Breastfeeding, 4 February 1988.
abstract: The Commission of Costa Rica referred to in the title was established by Decree No. 17273-S of 31 October 1986 (Annual Review of Population Law, Vol. 13, 1986, Section 920).  Section 3 of the present Decree lays down that the primary objective of the Commission is to promote breast feeding by means of activities in the fields of care, education, law, research, and information dissemination.  Section 5 lays down that, in order to carry out its functions, the Commission may have recourse to the technical assistance and financial support of the Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama (INCAP), the Pan American Health Organization, the UN Children's Fund, and the agencies that form part of the Commission, depending on their respective financial resources.  Section 6 lays down that the Commission is to function as a coordinating agency between public and private establishments undertaking activities to promote breast feeding and to organize groups carrying out activities related to breast feeding.  Under Section 7, the Commission's functions are as follows:  ensuring that the information disseminated by the various media on breast milk and breast-milk substitutes is not prejudicial to breast feeding; ensuring the satisfactory implementation of and compliance with the rules issued to foster breast feeding in health care centers in the country; encouraging the inclusion of matters relating to breast feeding and its promotion in the different levels of official education; encouraging the training of personnel who, on account of their functions, undertake activities in the maternal and child care field; contributing to the development of educational materials relating to breast feeding; ensuring awareness of legislation directly or indirectly fostering breast feeding and implementing such legislation; encouraging research enabling priorities to be established in decision-making for improving maternal and child health; and performing all other duties laid down by the law or deemed necessary by the Commission to achieve its objectives.  Under Section 11, the Commission is to maintain contacts with corresponding commissions in countries in Central America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere as well as with international organizations and agencies undertaking activities in the field of maternal and child care.
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