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The Committee notes the Government's report in reply to its previous comments. It draws attention, however, to the following matters.

Article 20(c) of the Convention. The Committee notes that the memoranda of 31 May and 5 July 1985 sent with the report for the purpose of showing the effective application of the principle of confidentiality regarding the source of complaints do not cover the particular aspect of correspondence exchanged between users and the regional and departmental labour inspection services. According to the indication given in the memorandum of 5 July 1985, this matter seems to be covered by circular No. 7 001 of 29 March 1985. The Government is therefore requested to send a copy of this circular with its next report in order to allow the Committee to appreciate its scope in regard to this article of the Convention.

Annual inspection reports. The Committee notes that, despite the information contained in the Government's report, the annual inspection reports for 1995, 1996 and 1997 are not available at the ILO. It would be grateful if the Government would send copies of them at the same time as those relating to subsequent years.