Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - French Polynesia

With reference to the Committee's earlier comments, the Government states that no new measure has been taken with regard to the application of the Convention. The social partners and the French Polynesian authorities are still involved in the process of adapting and modernizing the labour legislation applicable, a process for which the timetable has been determined in agreement with the social partners. The Committee notes this information. It must again draw the Government's attention to the schedule listing occupational diseases which is annexed to Order No. 826/CM of 6 August 1990, which has the same characteristics as the schedules prescribed in sections L.461-2 and R.461-3 of the French Metropolitan Social Security Code. The Committee trusts that the Government will be able to indicate in its next report that the necessary measures have been taken to ensure that national legislation is in full conformity with the Convention on the following points: (a) the restricted nature of the pathological manifestations listed under each of the diseases included in the schedules of the national legislation; (b) the absence from these schedules of an item covering in general terms, as in the Convention, poisoning by all halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series and by all compounds of phosphorus; and (c) the omission, from among trades likely to cause primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin, of processes involving the handling of certain products mentioned by the Convention.

The Committee also requests the Government to refer to the observation it is addressing to metropolitan France in respect of the application of Convention No. 42.