Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Cabo Verde (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments:

1. Article 2, paragraph 2, of the Convention (in conjunction with Article 3, paragraph 2). With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest that under section 23 of the new Constitution promulgated on 4 September 1992 foreigners and stateless persons benefit in the national territory from the same rights, liberties and guarantees and are subject to the same obligations as nationals, with the exception of political rights and those reserved by the Constitution or the law to nationals. Therefore, the condition of reciprocity provided for by section 26 of the former Constitution has been repealed.

With regard to section 14 of the Civil Code and section 3, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree No. 84/78 respecting compulsory occupational accident insurance, under which foreign workers are not considered to be in a similar situation to nationals unless there is a reciprocal arrangement with their respective country, the Committee also takes due note of the Government's intention to adopt the necessary measures in order to bring this legislation in line with the Convention. The Committee therefore once again hopes that these measures will be adopted soon so as to eliminate, in conformity with the Convention, all conditions of reciprocity in the field of compensation for occupational accidents established by the abovementioned legislation.

2. The Committee notes that the Government's report did not contain the statistical data requested under Part V of the report form approved by the Governing Body of the ILO. It therefore once again asks the Government to provide this information as soon as possible.