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In reply to the Committee’s previous comments concerning the extent of the coverage of the general system for employment injury compensation (Sistema General de riesgos Profesionales (SGRP)) to wage earners in the agricultural sector, the Government states that enterprises in the agricultural industry are affiliated to the SGRP and that the implementation of this system is gradual in both the urban and rural sectors. The Government hopes that its next report on the application of the Convention will show positive developments and even significant progress in the application of the Convention.

The Committee notes this information and the statistics provided by the Government. It notes with interest the increase in the number of workers affiliated to the SGRP (6,185,191 insured persons in 1998, compared with 4,320,038 in 1996). It nevertheless hopes that the Government will indicate in its next report the measures taken to enable all the agricultural wage earners covered by the Convention to be entitled to the benefits provided by the SGRP in the event of employment injury. In this respect, it requests the Government to continue providing information on the number of wage earners affiliated to the SGRP and, in particular, statistics on the number of insured wage earners in the agricultural sector in relation to the total number of wage earners working in this sector.