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In reply to the Committee's previous comments, the Government states that as a result of many institutional changes it has not been possible for the Legislative Commission to examine the draft texts needed to bring the national legislation into conformity with the Convention, since the Legislative Commission has not yet been able to meet. However, it adds that the schedule of occupational diseases, the draft of which is still awaiting examination, is not limitative and that measures have been taken to ensure its adoption.

The Committee notes this information. It recalls that it has been raising this matter since 1966 and that a draft Decree had been drawn up in 1978 during direct contacts. In this situation, the Committee is bound to urge the Government once again to take the necessary measures in the very near future to bring the schedule of occupational diseases annexed to Ordinance No. 59-60 of 1959 into conformity with Article 2 of the Convention by the deletion of the limitative nature in the list of pathological manifestations which may be caused by lead and mercury poisoning and by the addition, among the kinds of work which may lead to anthrax infection, of the operations of "loading and unloading or transport of merchandise" in general.