Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

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

The Committee notes with deep concern that the Government’s report has not been received. It expects that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments. The Committee informs the Government that, if it has not supplied replies to the points raised by 1 September 2020, then it may proceed with the examination of the application of the Convention on the basis of the information at its disposal at its next session.

Repetition

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.