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

Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969 (No. 130) - Germany (Ratification: 1974)

1. The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report, as well as the entry into force on 1 January 1989 of a new codification of the law on the statutory sickness insurance scheme, which was incorporated in the Social Code (Book Five (SGB V)). It also notes with satisfaction from the Government's reply to its previous comments that as a result of a ruling of the federal Constitutional Court, section 49 of Book V of the Social Code provides that the claim to sickness benefit, in so far as it exceeds the other social benefits listed therein, is not suspended. This is in conformity with Article 26 of the Convention (read together with Article 28, paragraph 1(h)).

2. The Committee draws the Government's attention to certain points which it raises in a direct request.