Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2007, Publicación: 97ª reunión CIT (2008)

Convenio sobre las enfermedades profesionales (revisado), 1934 (núm. 42) - Argelia (Ratificación : 1962)

The Committee notes that the report sent by the Government does not contain any replies to the points raised in its previous comments. Furthermore, the Committee regrets that the new schedules of occupational diseases established by the Interministerial Order of 5 May 1996 fixing the list of diseases presumed to be of occupational origin (Journal Officiel No. 16 of 23 March 1997) do not seem to take into consideration the comments which the Committee has been making for many years with a view to bringing national legislation fully into line with the Convention. The Committee therefore asks the Government, once again, to indicate in its next report the steps that it envisages taking to amend these schedules with regard to the following points:

(a)   the list of the various pathological manifestations (appearing in the left-hand column of the various schedules) must be of an indicative nature;

(b)   the wording of the items concerning poisoning by arsenic (Schedules Nos 20 and 21), manifestations caused by the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series (Schedules Nos 3, 11, 12, 26 and 27) and poisoning by phosphorus and certain of its compounds (Schedules Nos 5 and 34) must, in pursuance of the Convention, which is worded in general terms on these points, cover all manifestations that may be caused by the above substances;

(c)   the list of activities in which there is a risk of exposure to anthrax infection (Schedule No. 18) must include the “loading and unloading or transport of merchandise” in general.