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

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

With reference to its previous observation, the Committee notes the Government's statement that owing to the structural changes that have taken place within the Ministry of Public Service and Labour, it has been unable to complete the existing legislation by including a list of occupational diseases, in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes, however, that the matter is being examined and that the Government intends to resolve this in the near future. In view of the importance of this question, the Committee cannot but insist once again that the void which it noted in the legislation be filled by the adoption, in the very near future, of a list of occupational diseases including, at least, those enumerated in the schedule appended to Article 2 of the Convention, which shall be recognised as occupational diseases when they are contracted in the circumstances specified in the above schedule.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1992.]