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The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not reply to the questions raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

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.

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.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2008.]