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The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its first report on the Convention and makes the following comments:

Article 7 of the Convention. The Committee notes that the consultations between the Government, employers and workers to encourage and promote collective bargaining were held through the National Commission for Mediation and Collective Bargaining set up under the "Framework Agreement for Employment, Productivity and Social Equity" of 25 June 1994. In this respect, the Committee asks the Government to inform it whether this National Commission continues to function in practice, what agreements it has concluded and what other measures have been adopted to strengthen the action of the Commission.

Article 8. In regard to this Article, the Committee refers to its comments concerning Convention No. 98 on the requirement that, to be valid, agreements concluded beyond the enterprise level are subject to approval under certain conditions, and on the possibility of derogation by decree to collective agreements, based on the criteria of productivity.