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The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report in answer to its previous comments.

1. Article 11 of the Convention. For a number of years the Committee has been drawing the Government's attention to the need to take measures to ensure that no worker may use or be required to use machinery without the guards provided being in position; and that no worker may make such guards inoperative.

In its last report the Government states that the regulatory part of the draft Labour Code will provide expressly that no worker may use machinery of which the guards are inoperative. The Committee hopes that the relevant provisions will be adopted in the near future and asks the Government to provide a copy of them.

2. Article 17. In earlier comments the Committee noted the lack of any measures to ensure the application of the provisions of the Convention to machinery used in agriculture. The Government referred in its last report to section 37 of the Dahir of 24 April 1973 which establishes the conditions of employment and payment of wages of agricultural workers. Under this provision the machinery must be installed and maintained in the best possible conditions of safety. The Committee notes that the measures laid down in the above provision are of a general nature and only partly apply the provisions of the Convention as regards this sector. It once again expresses the hope that the Government will take the necessary measures, possibly in the draft of the Labour Code now being prepared, to give full effect to the Convention on this point.