Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2007, publiée 97ème session CIT (2008)

Convention (n° 118) sur l'égalité de traitement (sécurité sociale), 1962 - Bolivie (État plurinational de) (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation, which read as follows:

Article 2, paragraphs 1(i) and 2, and Article 6 of the Convention. In reply to the Committee’s previous comments relating to section 51 of Supreme Decree No. 22578 of 13 August 1990, the Government indicates that under the terms of the Bolivian legislation, family allowances include the prenatal allowance, the birth allowance, the nursing allowance and the funeral allowance. The Committee notes this information. It is however bound to draw the Government’s attention to the fact that these allowances do not fully respond to the concept of family benefit and family allowances within the meaning of the above Articles of the Convention. It also recalls that, in accordance with Article 40 read in conjunction with Article 1(e) of Convention No. 102, of which Part VII (Family benefit) was accepted by Bolivia when ratifying that Convention, the contingency covered is responsibility for the maintenance of children, with the term “child” meaning a child under school-leaving age or under 15 years of age. In these conditions, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the Government will be able to re-examine the situation with a view to re-establishing a scheme of family benefit which complies with Part VII of Convention No. 102, and that, in doing so, full account will be taken of Convention No. 118, and particular of Article 6, which specifies that each Member, which, like Bolivia, has accepted the obligations of the Convention in respect of family benefit, shall guarantee the grant of family allowances both to its own nationals and to the nationals of any other Member which has accepted the obligations of the Convention for that branch, in respect of children who reside on the territory of any such Member, under conditions and within limits to be agreed upon by the Members concerned. The Committee once again wishes to draw the Government’s attention to the possibility of having recourse to the technical assistance of the Office.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.