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The Committee notes the Government’s report and the information supplied in answer to its direct request of 2000. It notes the information on the practical application of Ordinance No. 22/1999 on Port Administration and Port Services, particularly the activities of the dockworkers’ employment and vocational training agencies, and the particulars of some of the measures implemented pursuant to the collective labour agreement by the "Port Units Group" (CCM-GUP) to attenuate the adverse effects of the reduction in the number of dockworkers. It also welcomes that an initiative of the National Federation of Dockworkers Unions Constata in cooperation with the dockworkers’ union of Copenhagen and the financial support of the PHARE programme, has resulted in a school being created in Constata for the purpose of offering dockworkers vocational training and retraining.

The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the practical effects given to Ordinance No. 22/1999, and the CCM-GUP collective labour agreement, and on the activities of the Constata school for dockworkers. The Government may find it useful to send with its report available statistics or extracts of the reports of the Territorial Labour Inspectorates and the Civil Navigation Inspectorate. The Committee hopes that the information supplied will also cover the activities of the dockworkers’ employment and vocational training agencies and will show, in particular, the numbers of dockworkers on their registers and variations in these numbers (Part V of the report form).