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In reference to its observation, the Committee would appreciate information on the following points:

Article 21 of the Convention. In its previous comments concerning the review of employment injury pensions, the Committee had expressed the hope that the Government would communicate the statistical information requested under Article 21 of the report form adopted by the Governing Body which relates to the movement of the cost-of-living index and the wage index, as well as the evolution of long-term benefits paid for employment injuries during the period covered by the report. It had also requested the Government to communicate the text of the orders fixing the adjustment factors on employment injury pensions issued under Decree No. 81-1049 of 31 October 1981.

In its report, the Government supplied statistical information on movement of the cost-of-living index between 1985 and 1989, without however supplying the corresponding data on the evolution of employment injury pensions during that period. It also communicated the text of inter-ministerial Order No. 16032 MFPETS-DTSS of 31 December 1981 fixing the adjustment factors on employment injury pensions applicable from 1 March 1980 for the period between 1 March 1976 and 1 March 1980.

The Committee takes note of this information. It must, however, point out to the Government that, without statistical information on the movement of the cost-of-living index and on the evolution of the employment injury pensions covering the same period, it is not in a position to determine the manner in which this Article of the Convention is applied in practice. Bearing in mind the importance that the Committee attaches to the question of the review of long-term benefits for industrial accidents and occupational diseases, especially in the present economic context, the Committee can only urge the Government to communicate with its next report all the statistical information requested under Article 21 of the Convention by the report form concerning the movement of the cost-of-living index and the wage index during the period covered by the report, as well as on the evolution of the employment injury pensions during the same period.

Article 26. The Committee notes with interest the document on labour statistics for the year 1988 communicated by the Government with its report on Convention No. 81. It notes, in particular, that this document contained, in an appendix, statistics relating to the frequency and severity of industrial accidents. It hopes that in future the Government will also be able to communicate statistics on occupational diseases, in conformity with Article 26 of the Convention, as it had stated its intention of doing. [The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1990.]