Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Angola (Ratification: 1976)

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest the adoption of the Act respecting the social security system, No. 18/90 of 27 October 1990, and the other legal texts supplied by the Government with its report. It notes in particular that section 58 of the above Act provides for the adoption by the Council of Ministers of implementing regulations respecting compensation for industrial accidents and occupational diseases; pending the publication of these regulations, the compensation of industrial injuries is vested with the National Insurance and Reinsurance Company (ENSA), under the terms of section 59 of the Act.

The Committee, however, notes that in the absence of such regulations and in view of the fact that the previous legislation (the Rural Labour Code of 1962 and the Angolan Labour Code of 1957) was formally repealed by section 169 of the General Labour Act of 1981, there would appear to be no specific legal provisions which currently provide for the payment of cash benefits to the victims of industrial accidents.

In these conditions, the Committee hopes that the implementing regulations concerning the compensation for industrial accidents and occupational diseases provided for in section 58 of Act No. 18/90 of 1990 will be adopted in the very near future in order to give full effect to the Convention, and in particular to Articles 6 to 8. It requests the Government to indicate the progress achieved in this respect in its next report and to supply the text of the above regulations when they have been adopted.

The Committee also draws the Government's attention to certain points that it is raising in a direct request.