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Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Angola (RATIFICATION: 1976)

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest the adoption of the Act respecting the social security system, No. 18/90 of 27 October 1990, and in particular that section 58 of the Act provides for the adoption by the Council of Ministers of regulations respecting the compensation of industrial accidents and occupational diseases.

The Committee, however notes that in the absence of these regulations and in view of the fact that the previous legislation (the Rural Labour Code of 1962 and the Angolan Labour Code of 1957) was formally repealed by section 169 of the General Labour Act of 1981, there appear to be no specific legal provisions that currently give effect to the Convention.

In these conditions, the Committee cannot but express the hope that the regulations respecting the compensation of industrial accidents and occupational diseases provided for in section 58 of Act No. 18/90 will be adopted in the very near future. It also hopes that these regulations will provide, in accordance with Article 1 of the Convention, for compensation to workmen incapacitated by occupational diseases, or to their dependants, in accordance with the general principles relating to compensation for industrial accidents, and that it will also contain a schedule of occupational diseases, including all the diseases and processes that are liable to provoke them, as set out in the Schedule annexed to Article 2. It requests the Government to supply detailed information on the progress achieved in this respect and to supply the text of the above regulations when they have been adopted.