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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 1999 direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes that, despite efforts to collect labour market statistics, such statistics are still not available. It requests the Government to describe in its next report any progress in making available as precise as possible an assessment of the situation of and trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment.

The Committee would appreciate if the Government would specify any measures taken to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment, citing specific examples of policies and programmes. It would also appreciate more information on how such policies and programmes are kept under review within the framework of a coordinated economic and social policy, pursuant to the Law on the Employment of the Population of 27 December 1993, as specified under Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. In particular, the Committee requests information on the employment aims of the five-year plan designed to establish market economy conditions, on the impact of the budgetary and monetary policies implemented in agreement with the International Monetary Fund, and on the impact on employment of the various programmes undertaken with financial assistance from the World Bank.

The Committee requests information on the implementation in practice of the Law on the Employment of the Population; on the functioning of the employment service; on the organization of public works; on the contribution of the privatization programme, agricultural reforms, and the introduction of a social safety net to objectives of the Convention; and on the education, training and retraining for the unemployed.

The Committee also asks the Government to supply full information in its next report on the provision made to ensure that employers’ and workers’ representatives are consulted on an equal footing at all stages in the preparation and application of employment policies, and that such consultations include representatives of other sectors of the labour force, in accordance with Article 3.

The Committee would also appreciate if the Government would indicate if it has undertaken any ILO technical cooperation projects relating to employment promotion, as requested under Part V of the report form.