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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 direct request of 2000, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s last report and the information that it contains in reply to its direct request of 1997. It notes in this respect that, following the self-determination referendum in 1998, Organic Act No. 99-209 of 19 March 1999 determined the respective fields of competence of the French State and of New Caledonia, and that the latter is granted competence in the fields of labour law and the right to organize. The Committee also notes that the above Act grants New Caledonia the right to become a member, associate member or observer of international organizations, but that the French State retains competence with regard to international Conventions.