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The Committee has examined the information provided by the Government. It notes with interest the information on a number of points raised in its previous direct request: the number of persons covered by the health insurance scheme which also provides health care benefits in the event of employment injury, the reference to the eighth indent of section 23 of the Act on Health Care and Health Insurance which provides that all medical treatment and rehabilitation needed in case of occupational diseases and injury at work is provided free of charge, and, with reference to Article 17 of the Convention, the information on the cases and circumstances of reassessment, suspension or cancellation of periodical payments laid down in the Pension and Invalidity Insurance Act and the Act on Health Care and Health Insurance. As regards the payment of wage compensation (compensatory pay) by the employer during the first 30 days of incapacity for work, the Committee refers to its direct request under Convention No. 24.

1. Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that the list of occupational diseases adopted in 1983 under a "self-management agreement" is still in use, but that it shall be replaced by a new list which is currently being prepared for the purpose of harmonizing it with the European legislation. The Committee hopes that the new list will also be in compliance with the list of occupational diseases contained in Schedule I to the Convention, in particular as regards the list of work involving exposure to the risk concerned (items 1 to 12, and 15, of Schedule I), and that the Government will supply a copy of it, when adopted.

2. Articles 13 (temporary incapacity benefit), 14 (permanent incapacity benefit), and 18 (survivors’ benefit), (in conjunction with Article 19). The Committee once again asks the Government to supply, with respect to each of the benefits provided by the abovementioned Articles, the statistical information in the manner set out in the report form adopted by the Governing Body under the corresponding titles of Article 19. The Committee trusts that the Government will have no difficulty to determine the reference wages of a skilled manual male employee as defined in Article 19, paragraph 6(d), of the Convention, by using for this purpose the average gross wage in the Republic of Slovenia which it had indicated in its report for the year 1999.