Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee has examined the list of occupational diseases annexed to Resolution No. 38 of 23 May 1959. It notes that the said list uses rather outdated expressions such as "saturnism" and "hydrargirism" whereas the Convention is drafted in wider terms, i.e. "poisoning by lead, its alloys or compounds and their sequelae". Therefore, the list of occupational diseases annexed to the legislation, contrary to the Convention, would not cover poisoning caused by some inorganic mercurial compounds and in particular organic compounds both of lead (such as tetraethyl lead) and mercury (such as phenyl or methyl mercury), the signs and symptoms of which are quite different from those occurring in poisoning by lead and mercury. Thus the table of occupational diseases contains a limited list of these signs and symptoms which does not cover all pathological conditions caused by the agents in question.

The Committee hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to bring the list of occupational diseases annexed to the legislation into full conformity with the Convention on the points mentioned above.