Protección Social

>> Question 8 : What is the impact of the ILO Social Security Standards?

As ILO social security instruments were designed to provide a framework of standards reflecting the common aims and principles on which any social security system must be based, their adoption went hand in hand with the establishment of social security systems in many countries and had an important impact at the regional level, particularly in Europe and Latin America.

• Up to now, 42 countries (January 2007) have ratified Convention No. 102 and have therefore incorporated its provisions into their internal legal systems and in many cases, into their national practice,

• Social security schemes exist in nearly all industrialized countries covering the nine branches to which Convention No. 102 applies,

• Many developing countries, inspired by Convention No. 102, have embarked upon the road to social security, even though nearly all their systems are more modest in scope and, in general, do not yet encompass unemployment or family benefit,

• Most of the social security schemes in Latin America, which have their origins in the era of social insurance, were greatly influenced by international social security standards and in particular, by Convention No. 102,

• Convention No. 102 served as a model for the adoption of the European Code of Social Security, adopted under the aegis of the Council of Europe, which relied for its formulation on the participation of the ILO,

• The European Social Charter provides that the Contracting parties undertake to maintain a level of protection at least equal to that required by the ratification of Convention No. 102.

Question 9 : Which are the supervisory mechanisms?