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The Committee notes that the Government's report does not contain a reply to its previous comments. It therefore recalls that, for a number of years, it has been drawing the Government's attention to the absence from national laws of provisions giving effect to Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention, under the terms of which any package or object of 1,000 kg or more gross weight consigned for transport by sea or inland waterway shall have its gross weight plainly and durably marked upon it on the outside before it is loaded on a ship or vessel.

For over ten years, the Government has been indicating that measures would be taken to give effect to this Article of the Convention and that a draft legislative text was under examination for this purpose. The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to ensure that the text in question is adopted in the very near future and that it will also give effect to paragraph 4 of Article 1, by indicating who is under the obligation to have the weight marked.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2001.]