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The Committee notes with interest the first report of the Government on the application of the Convention and the documents attached.

It notes the establishment of the National Social Partnership Council and its functions in relation to the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention.

The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to supply, for the periods covered by each of its next reports, information on the consultations which have taken place on each of the matters set out in paragraph 1 of this provision, including their frequency, and to specify the nature of all recommendations resulting from these consultations.

It also requests the Government to indicate in its next report (i) whether specific training for these procedures is found to be necessary, and reminds it that Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Convention does not oblige any of the parties to bear the financing of training but asks simply that appropriate arrangements shall be made (see Tripartite consultations, General Survey, 1982, paragraph 170); and (ii) whether tripartite consultations within the meaning of the Convention have been held on the advisability of issuing an annual report on the working of the procedures, and to supply information on such consultations, if any, as requested under Article 6.

Finally, the Committee notes the NSPC's proposals in favour of ratification of Convention No. 88 concerning the organization of the employment service, 1948, and of Convention No. 135 concerning workers' representatives, 1971 (subject to the law on trade unions).