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The Committee notes the Government’s first detailed report on the application of the Convention. In its report, the Government describes in particular various measures adopted under the Training and Employment Charter and by the Fund for the Modernization of Labour Relations for the provision of study leave. The Committee recalls that the Convention requires the formulation and application of "a policy designed to promote, by methods appropriate to national conditions and practice and by stages as necessary, the granting of paid educational leave". The Committee therefore trusts that in its next report the Government will include other information and will provide the texts (government statements, etc.) related to the formulation of such a policy (Article 2 of the Convention).

Articles 3 and 10. Please indicate the procedures for granting paid educational leave, and particularly on the level of the benefits paid to persons benefiting from such leave.

Article 4. The Committee refers to the comments made in 2001 concerning the application of Convention No. 122 and would be grateful if the Government would indicate the extent to which paid educational leave has contributed to achieving the objective of training one million workers annually until 2005. Please also describe the coordination of paid educational leave with the general vocational education and training policy.

The Committee also refers to the comments that it has been making for many years on the application of Conventions Nos. 1 and 30, and it trusts that the obligations undertaken in relation to those Conventions will be taken into account in the granting of paid educational leave. Please indicate the steps which have been taken to coordinate the national policy on paid educational leave with general policies on hours of work. Please also describe the extent to which the implementation of the national policy on paid educational leave takes account of seasonal variations in the hours or volume of work.

Article 7. Please provide any available information on the amounts specifically allocated to paid educational leave during the period covered by the next report.

Article 9. Please describe any measures which have been taken to grant paid educational leave to workers in small enterprises, to rural or other workers residing in isolated areas, shiftworkers and to workers with family responsibilities.