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North Yemen

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

Articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Convention. The Committee notes from the Government's report that the periodical reports submitted to the central administration of labour inspection and occupational health and safety contain information on all the points listed under Article 21 of the Convention, but that the central inspection authority is unable to publish these reports annually owing to a lack of material means. In this connection, the Committee wishes to stress (as it has already done in paragraph 277 of its General Survey of 1985 on Labour Inspection and in its general observation of 1986) that, in cases where there are difficulties of a financial nature in the publication of an annual report, recourse to inexpensive methods of printing - for instance, roneoed or mimeographed inspection reports - should enable the requirements of the Conventions to be met, provided that the reports are widely disseminated among the authorities and administrations concerned and among workers' and employers' organisations and that they are placed at the disposal of all interested parties. The Committee hopes that the Government will take note of these suggestions and take the necessary steps to ensure that, in future, annual inspection reports are published and transmitted to the ILO within the period laid down in Article 20 of the Convention.