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The Committee notes with regret 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 comments, which read as follows:

1. In its previous observation, the Committee noted with interest that, in response to a request of the Government for assistance in implementing the provisions of the Convention, a mission was undertaken in December 1991 by officials of the International Labour Office who subsequently prepared a report concerning the measures which might be taken by the Government and the social partners to give effect to the principle of equal pay for work of equal value. The Committee had noted that this report was being examined by the relevant governmental authorities and by the workers' and employers' organizations and that the Office would be kept informed as to the outcome of this examination.

The Committee hopes once again that the Government will provide full information in its next report concerning the measures being taken or contemplated in the light of the assistance provided.

2. The Committee has noted with interest that a few renewed collective agreements have included a clause showing an intention to create new wage scales in place of the previous sex-based wage rates. The Committee hopes that, among the measures which might be taken pursuant to the assistance provided by the Office, priority will be given to the removal of the sex-based wage rates applying in a number of collective agreements. It requests the Government to supply full particulars in this regard in its next report.

3. The Committee has also noted with interest from the statistical data supplied in the Government's previous report that the wage differential between women and men continued to narrow. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide information in its future reports showing the relative difference in the average earnings of women and men in the economy.