Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government in its report. It also notes the information provided in the Government's first report on the application of the European Code of Social Security, particularly with regard to the implementation of the new unemployment insurance scheme introduced by the agreement of 6 July 1988 and the regulations issued thereunder, which enable effect to be given to Part IV of the Convention (Unemployment Benefit).

With regard to the level of certain benefits, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide detailed information on the following points:

1. Part VII of the Convention (Family Benefit), Article 44. In its previous comments, the Committee asked the Government to provide the statistical information required by the report form under this provision of the Convention so that it could ascertain whether the amounts of the family benefits prescribed by the Convention are attained. As the Government has provided no information on the subject, the Committee trusts that the next report will contain all the statistical information required, and in particular:

- the total value of benefits in cash and kind paid for dependent children (except for the allowance for young children, the parental education allowance and the allowance for child care in the home);

- the amount of the wage of an ordinary male adult labourer determined in accordance with Article 66, paragraphs 4 and 5;

- the total number of children of all residents.

2. Part XI (Standards to be Complied with by Periodical Payments), Article 65 (in conjunction with the following parts of the Convention: Part V (Old-Age Benefit), Article 28; Part VIII (Maternity Benefit), Article 50, and Part IX (Invalidity Benefit), Article 56). The Committee again requests the Government to provide the information required by the report form for each of the benefits coming under the above Articles of the Convention. Since the above benefits are calculated on the basis of the former earnings of the beneficiary, the Government may wish to avail itself of Article 65, as indeed it has already expressly indicated, in calculating old-age and invalidity benefits. Furthermore, under French legislation, the wage subject to contributions which serves as the basis for calculating benefits paid for the above-mentioned contingencies may not exceed a given ceiling, the Committee asks the Government to indicate in its report, on the basis of appropriate statistics, whether the amounts of old-age, maternity and invalidity benefits correspond, for a standard beneficiary, to the percentages required by the Convention when the former earnings of the beneficiary are equal to the wage of a skilled manual male employee, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 65 of the Convention. Please provide, in particular, all the statistics required by the report form under Article 65 of the Convention, and state, in particular, the wage of the skilled manual male employee selected according to paragraphs 6 or 7 of Article 65, and the maximum amount of the wage which is subject to contributions for the various contingencies.