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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Articles 4 and 6 of the Convention. The Committee has noted from the Government's report that the lack of qualified staff in the labour inspection services was, to a certain extent, preventing supervision of the application of the safety provisions in the building industry and that no statistical data has existed on occupational accidents in this industry. The Committee also has noted from the information supplied by the Government concerning the application of the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), that consultations were in progress between the competent ministries with a view to taking practical measures for the reorganisation of the inspection service.

The Committee hopes that this reorganisation will be possible in the near future and that the necessary measures will be taken at an early date to give practical effect to Article 4 of the Convention (which prescribes that each Member shall have an inspection system to ensure the effective application of legislation on safety provisions in the building industry) and Article 6 (which provides for regular communication to the ILO of recent statistical data relating to the number and classification of accidents occurring to persons occupied on work within the scope of the Convention). The Committee requests the Government to indicate any progress made in this connection in its next report.