Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

The Committee notes the report provided by the Government and the legislative texts and statistics attached. In this respect, it notes with interest the adoption, during the period covered by the report, of Legislative Decree No. 38 of 23 February 2000 which, among other measures, extends protection against occupational diseases to new categories of workers who were previously excluded, such as so-called “para-subordinate” workers and middle managerial staff, as well as establishing a Scientific Commission entrusted with formulating and periodically revising the list of occupational diseases. Taking as a basis the recommendations of the Scientific Commission, the Decree of 27 April 2004 of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy henceforth establishes, in addition to the occupational diseases recognized by Presidential Decree No. 336 of 13 April 1994, three schedules of diseases of which the occupational origin is considered highly likely, of limited likelihood, or possible and which have to be notified to the competent national authorities.