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Part VI (Employment injury benefit) of the Convention, Article 34, paragraph 2(c), of the Convention. The report indicates that nursing care at home is provided by the Social Insurance Institute (IKA) by virtue of articles 10 and 11 of the Sickness Regulation, the English translation of which is attached. The Committee draws attention to the fact that this attachment was not received.

Article 36, paragraph 2. Since 1990, the Committee insisted on the need to re-establish in the Greek legislation the right to long-term benefit at a reduced rate for victims of employment injury with incapacity of less than 50 per cent. In its 35th report on the European Code of Social Security, the Government indicates that the actuarial services of the IKA–ETAM have prepared an economically suitable solution to this question on the basis of the estimated number of potential beneficiaries (160 persons annually), the degree of incapacity to be covered (33.3 per cent to 49.9 per cent), the possible level of the benefit (up to 40 per cent of the full amount of invalidity pension) and the overall cost of the programme (approximately 768,000 euros). In order to ascertain to what extent this solution will give effect to the corresponding provisions of the Convention, the Committee strongly hopes that the Government will take all the necessary measures to organize in 2008 technical consultations between the Actuarial Service of IKA‑ETAM and the experts of the Council of Europe and the ILO. In the meantime, taking into account the fact that cases of employment injuries resulting in invalidity of 33.3 to 49.9 per cent are not registered and monitored by the “councils of invalidity”, the Government is once again invited to consider carrying out a sociological study and statistical survey on the conditions of life and work of victims of employment injuries with incapacity of less than 50 per cent.

Part XI (Standards to be complied with by periodical payments). The Committee notes that the amount of daily sickness benefits is equal to 50 per cent of the amount of the estimated daily income of the insurance class to which the beneficiary belongs, and cannot be higher, with the increments due to family responsibilities, than the amount of the estimated daily rate of the eighth insurance class. The basic amount and the rate of increases of the old-age and disability pensions also vary depending on the insurance class. The Committee would like the Government to explain in its next report the system of insurance classes and its relation to the reference wage of the standard beneficiary selected by the Government under Articles 65 and 66 of the Convention for the calculation of the replacement rate of the benefits. Please make these calculations in such a way as to show that the maximum limit fixed for the rate of the benefits complies with the requirements of Article 65(3), while the minimum amount of the benefits attains the level prescribed in Article 66 of the Convention.