Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - Morocco (Ratification: 1957)

List of occupational diseases. The Committee notes that the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training is currently revising the list of existing schedules of occupational diseases in order to respond to the requirements of technological progress (Order No. 919-99 of 23 December 1999 amending and completing Order No. 100-68 of 20 May 1967 establishing the list of occupational diseases). According to the Government, this revision will enable the number of schedules to be increased and their content to be modified, taking into account the remarks of the Committee of Experts in order to be fully in line with the Convention. The Committee recalls that the existing schedules of occupational diseases provide a restrictive list of pathological symptoms caused by poisoning by lead, mercury, phosphorous, arsenic, benzene, or the alloys, amalgams, compounds or homologues of these substances, and poisoning by the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series. The Convention, on the other hand, contains an open list of symptoms likely to be caused by these types of poisoning, thereby covering all possible pathological symptoms, including those which are atypical or new and which may appear following poisoning or the action of one of the abovementioned agents. The Committee hopes that the revision of the existing schedules of occupational diseases currently under way will enable better application of the Convention by the Government in this respect.