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The Committee has taken note of the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. Article 13, paragraph 2, of the Convention. In its previous comments, the Committee draws the Government's attention to the need to insert in the national law a special provision prescribing the minimum age for any person who is in control of any hoisting machine, including any scaffold winch, or who gives signals to the operator, and prohibiting the employment in such work of any person who has not reached the prescribed age.

In the absence of information on this question, the Committee again asks the Government to take the necessary measures to give effect to this provision of the Convention.

2. The Committee also refers to its previous comments and to the general observation it made on Article 6 of this Convention in 1988 (cf. International Labour Conference, 75th Session, Report III, Part A, p. 115) and asks the Government to supply in its next report the latest statistical information relating to the number and classification of accidents occurring to persons occupied on work within the scope of this Convention.