Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Tunisia (Ratification: 1959)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report to the effect that Act No. 94-28 of 21 February 1994 has established a new compensation scheme for employment accidents and occupational diseases, the management of which is entrusted to the National Social Security Fund. The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 3 of the above Act, the schedule of diseases presumed to be occupational in their origin, as well as the main types of work liable to cause them, shall be established by joint order of the Ministers of Public Health and Social Affairs, and that the schedule also determines the period within which workers remain entitled to compensation for occupational disease contracted when they are no longer exposed to the causes of the disease. In this respect, noting the order of 10 January 1995 establishing the schedule of occupational diseases, under the terms of section 3 of the above Act, the Committee notes that the schedules of occupational diseases will be published in a special edition. Considering that these schedules have not been provided, it requests the Government to communicate a copy of the special edition mentioned above.