Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Seventh Session on 19 May 1925, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to workmen's compensation for occupational diseases, which is included in the first item of the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals should take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this tenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Recommendation, 1925, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:
Whereas it is recognised that each State is free to establish under its national legislation a more complete list than that embodied in the Schedule appended to Article 2 of the Convention concerning workmen's compensation for occupational diseases,
The Conference recommends that
Each Member of the International Labour Organisation should adopt, where such procedure does not already exist, a simple procedure by which the list of diseases considered occupational in its national legislation may be revised.
