Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

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

Referring to its direct request made under the Workmen’s Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17), the Committee asks the Government to supply additional information on the manner in which the procedure for recognition of occupational diseases operates, from the time of the medical diagnosis (Convention No. 18), and to clarify whether the pathologies listed in Appendix 1 to Decree No. 53/05 are presumed to be of occupational origin whenever the person concerned had worked in the industries and processes listed in the Schedule appended to the Convention. Please also indicate the manner in which the burden of proof applies to the recognition of occupational diseases.