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1. The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous observation and direct requests concerning the comments made by the Turkish Confederation of Employers' Associations (TISK) on the minimum wage-fixing machinery in agriculture, the machinery being a Joint Minimum-Wage Board in which, in addition to a Government representative, an employers' and a workers' representative from the agricultural sector participate. The Committee also notes the new statements by the above Confederation, which were transmitted by the Government with its report (received in October 1989) and with its communication of 4 January 1990. In these statements, the Confederation of Employers' Associations indicates that its previous comments were merely the explanation of the actual legal framework for the fixing of minimum wages in agriculture.

2. Referring to its previous comments the Committee also notes, from the information supplied by the Government, that the Agriculture and Forestry Work Bill, which had been submitted to the competent commission of the Grand National Assembly, was not approved and that it was therefore rejected. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures that have been taken for the formulation of a new draft text in this area which would also establish minimum wage-fixing machinery in the sense of the Convention.