Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1990, publiée 77ème session CIT (1990)

Convention (n° 42) (révisée) des maladies professionnelles, 1934 - Algérie (Ratification: 1962)

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report. It regrets to note that no progress has been achieved in bringing the schedules of occupational diseases annexed to the Order of 22 March 1968, as amended, into conformity with the Schedule set out in the Convention. The Committee notes, however, that a technical committee, which includes, in particular, representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the UGTA, is set to examine the existing schedules of occupational diseases and to modify and update them as necessary, taking into account the points raised by the Committee of Experts. The Committee is therefore bound once again to hope that the work of the above technical committee will soon result in the adoption of texts under Act No. 83-13 of 5 July 1983 and that the new schedule of occupational diseases will take into account its previous comments concerning the schedules annexed to the Order of 22 March 1968, as amended, namely:

(a) the list of the various pathological manifestations appearing under each "disease" in the left-hand column of the schedules in the national legislation should be of an indicative nature, as is the list of corresponding activities in the right-hand column of these schedules;

(b) the wording of the items concerning poisoning by arsenic (schedules nos. 20 and 21), manifestations due to 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) should be replaced by a wording covering in general terms - like that of the Convention - all manifestations that may be caused by the above substances (a wording of this kind would make it possible also to cover diseases that might be caused by the utilisation of new products, as the Government pointed out earlier);

(c) the activities that may cause anthrax infection (schedule no. 18) should include the loading and unloading or transport of merchandise in general, so as to cover workers, such as dockers, who may unwittingly have transported merchandise contaminated by the anthrax spore.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1990.]