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With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the report supplied by the Government and the statistical bulletins for 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990 which have been transmitted. The Committee finds that the statistics supplied do not contain any information on the following items in Article 21 of the Convention: (b) staff of the labour inspection service; (c) statistics of workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein (except for the Province of Pichincha); (e) statistics of violations and penalties imposed; and (g) statistics of occupational diseases for 1989 and 1990. The Committee emphasises once again the importance it attaches to the annual inspection reports, which enable an evaluation of the inspectorate's activities in practice. Furthermore the authorities should be able to extract from these reports useful conclusions for the future and to invite reactions from employers and workers (see Article 5(b)). The Committee hopes that coming annual inspection reports will contain all necessary information and that the Government will indicate in its report what steps have been taken to ensure that the number of labour inspectors is sufficient (Article 10) and that workplaces are visited as often and as thoroughly as necessary.